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High-flexible low water-peak single-mode fibre
Operating under the marketing label Draka Comteq, Draka Fibre Technology BV, the Netherlands, develops, produces and markets optical fibres under two different production processes. One of the two processes is a unique system developed in-house by the company’s own engineers: the PCVD process (Plasma-activated Chemical Vapour Deposition). The PCVD process is acknowledged world-wide as the best production method for optical fibres, especially the multimode version. The other fibre manufacturing process is MCVD (Modified Chemical Vapour Deposition). Draka Fibre Technology’s expert knowledge of the MCVD process results in low-loss single-mode fibres that form the building block for countless high-speed optical communication networks all over the world.
The company offers its low water-peak single-mode optical fibre, series FullBright, suitable for use across the entire wavelength window from 1260 up to 1625nm. Its major characteristics are defined at the usual wavelengths of 1310nm and 1550nm and at the water-peak (1385nm). This optical fibre offers high-flexibility for the use of modern optical transmission technologies (single channel, coarse and dense WDM) and networks with a mixture of new and legacy types of transmission systems. The major innovation of this fibre is the reduction of the traditional water-peak loss, i.e. a maximum loss of 0.40dB/km across the entire 1310-1625nm window. The fibre complies with or exceeds the ITU recommendation G.652.C and the IEC 60793-2-50 type B 1.3 optical fibre specification.
The single-mode fibre is coated with a dual layer UV-curable acrylate, type DLPC9. Designed for more stringent tight-buffer cable applications, the fibre also performs perfectly in loose-tube buffer constructions and demonstrates high-resistance to micro-bending. The coating offers an excellent, stable coating strip force over a wide range of environmental conditions. Coating stripping leaves no residues on the bare glass fibre. The DLPC9 coated fibres show unique high and stable values for the dynamic stress corrosion susceptibility parameter (nd), which offers a greatly improved mechanical protection to the optical fibre when used in harsh environments.
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Draka Fibre Technology |
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Netherlands |
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