Water propagation blocking properties of submarine optical fibre cable |
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Authors: | Yoshizawa N. Ohnishi M. Negishi Y. |
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Affiliation: | NTT Ibaraki Electrical Communication Laboratory, Tokai, Japan; |
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Abstract: | A submarine optical fibre cable is developed which has excellent water propagation blocking properties. Propagation is estimated to be less than 750 m/month at a depth of 8000 m. It also has low-loss properties of 0.40 dB/km at a wavelength of 1.3 ?m. |
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