Optical Fiber Propagation Properties
											100
																50
																	20
																																												Transitions
																																Peaks
															10
																																															Zero-dispersion wavelengths: single-mode fiber can support BW•length > 100 GHz•km at these wavelengths
																		5
																			2
																		1
																																																									2002: Lucent’s Metro-optimized “AllWave” fiber
												0.5
																																																											Rayleigh Scattering
													0.2
														0.1
																										AlGaAs
																																								InGaAsP
								0.05
																																																						Sources
																																																							Detectors
																											Si
																																									InGaAs
																				0.6								0.8					1.0				1.2					1.4								1.6								1.8					2.0
			(Visible)
																																				Wavelength (mm)
	5