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A discussion of the dispersion relation of the modes guided by an annular core fiber is done in order to prove that the fundamental mode has a zero cutoff. It also gives the inequalities satisfied by the cutoff frequencies of the first lower modes. A relation is established between the propagation constants of two modes with the same radial order but different azimuthal orders. It allows us to precisely set the conditions for these constants to be almost similar. Numerical results are shown to confirm these assertions. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 38: 249–254, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.11029 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A dual concentric core fibre exhibiting a chromatic dispersion coefficient around -350 ps/(nm km) is used in a dispersion compensating module designed for WDM application. The optimised length ratio is larger than 20 and the residual chromatic dispersion is measured at 0.4 ps/(nm km) in the C-band. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]