Abstract

We discussed how to design the typical trip-clad high-order mode fiber (HOMF) profiles to achieve the required dispersion properties based on LP₀₂ mode, to compensate all modern transmission fibers, without sacrificing other important properties, such as effective area. Finally, HOMF compensating 100km eLEAF ® fiber has been designed. Its dispersion at 1550nm is -1217ps/nm/km, and the relative dispersion slope (RDS) is 0.02nm^-1. Only ∼345m of HOMF is needed to achieve full dispersion and dispersion slope compensation of the span, while maintaining effective area above 52µm² over the entire C-band.

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