Abstract: An optical fiber cable includes: a core; an outer filling disposed outside the core; and a sheath that covers the core and the outer filling. The core includes: optical fibers; an inner filling; and a wrapping tube that wraps the optical fibers and the inner filling. The outer filling and the inner filling absorb water.

Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires a query feature quantity which is a collection of feature quantities for a query moving image and a feature quantity record which is a collection of feature quantities for a candidate moving image. A similarity map generation unit compares the query feature quantity with the feature quantity record, calculates a similarity between the query feature quantity and the feature quantity record for each of frames of the candidate moving image and generates a similarity sequence in which the similarities are chronologically arranged, and generates a similarity map in which the similarity sequences for the respective frames of the candidate moving image are arranged in order of the frames of the candidate moving image.

Abstract: A dispersion compensating optical fiber for NZ-DSFs, includes: an uncovered dispersion compensating optical fiber; a double-layered resin coating disposed around the uncovered dispersion compensating optical fiber; and an outer coating layer having a thickness of 3 to 7 ?m, containing silicone in an amount of 1 to 5% by weight, and disposed around the double-layered resin coating. The outer diameter of the uncovered dispersion compensating optical fiber is in a range from 90 to 125 ?m, an outer diameter of the dispersion compensating optical fiber is in a range from 180 to 250 ?m, and the amount of silicone contained in the outer coating layer is determined such that an adhesive property of the outer coating layer is 1 gf/mm or less.

Abstract: A dispersion-compensated optical fiber which does not cause an increase in a loss if it is wound in a small reel and has a stable temperature characteristics is provided, wherein, in a wavelength range from. A dispersion-compensated optical fiber is formed such that, in at least a wavelength between 1.53 to 1.63 ?m, a bending loss of with a 20 mm bending diameter is 5 dB/m or lower, a wavelength dispersion is ?120 ps/nm/km or lower, a cut-off wavelength under a usage condition is 1.53 ?m or lower, an outer diameter of the cladding is 80 to 100 ?m, an outer diameter of a coating is 160 to 200 ?m, and a viscosity of a surface of a coating resin is 10 gf/mm or lower. It is set such that b/a is 1.5 to 3.5, c/b is 1.2 to 2.0, a radius of a core is 4 to 8 ?m, ?1 is +1.6% to +2.6%, ?2 is ?0.30% to ?1.4%, and ?3 is ?0.30% to +1.0%. Young's modulus of a first coating layer is 0.15 kgf/mm2 or lower and its thickness is 20 to 30 ?m.

Abstract: In fusion-splicing a dispersion compensating optical fiber having a negative dispersion slope, with a connection optical fiber having a different near field pattern from that of the dispersion compensating optical fiber, if for the connection optical fiber, one is selected such that a theoretical joint loss in a used wavelength, obtained from an overlap integral of a near field pattern of the dispersion compensating optical fiber after fusion splicing and a near field pattern of the connection optical fiber after fusion splicing is presumed to be 0.3 dB or less, in an unconnected state, a construction enabling connection at a low loss results.

Abstract: A dispersion compensating optical fiber for NZ-DSFs, includes: an uncovered dispersion compensating optical fiber; a double-layered resin coating disposed around the uncovered dispersion compensating optical fiber; and an outer coating layer having a thickness of 3 to 7 ?m, containing silicone in an amount of 1 to 5% by weight, and disposed around the double-layered resin coating. The outer diameter of the uncovered dispersion compensating optical fiber is in a range from 90 to 125 ?m, an outer diameter of the dispersion compensating optical fiber is in a range from 180 to 250 ?m, and the amount of silicone contained in the outer coating layer is determined such that an adhesive property of the outer coating layer is 1 gf/mm or less.

Abstract: A dispersion compensating optical fiber includes an uncovered dispersion compensating optical fiber containing a core and a cladding, and a resin coating which is disposed around the uncovered dispersion compensating optical fiber, wherein the resin coating has an adhesive property of 10 g/mm or less, and which includes an outer coating layer which is formed to have a thickness of 3 ?m or more, and the outer diameter of the uncovered dispersion compensating optical fiber is in a range from 90 to 125 ?m, and the outer diameter of the dispersion compensating optical fiber is in a range from 180 to 250 ?m.

Abstract: A dispersion-compensated optical fiber which does not cause an increase in a loss if it is wound in a small reel and has a stable temperature characteristics is provided. A dispersion-compensated optical fiber is formed such that, in at least a wavelength between 1.53 to 1.63 ?m, a bending loss of 20 mm bending diameter is 5 dB/m or lower, a wavelength dispersion is ?120 ps/nm/km or lower, a cut-off wavelength under a usage condition is 1.53 ?m or lower, an outer diameter of the cladding is 80 to 100 ?m, an outer diameter of a coating is 160 to 200 ?m, a viscosity of a surface of a coating resin is 10 gf/mm or lower. It is set such that b/a is 1.5 to 3.5, c/b is 1.2 to 2.0, a radius of a core is 4 to 8 ?m, ?1 is +1.6% to +2.6%, ?2 is ?0.30% to ?1.4%, and ?3 is ?0.3 0% to +1.0%. Young's modulus of a first coating layer is 0.15 kgf/nun 2 or lower and its thickness is 20 to 30 ?m. Young's modulus of a second coating layer is 50 kgf/mm2 or lower and its thickness is 15 to 30 ?m.

Abstract: A dispersion compensating fiber, which has a negative dispersion slope with a large absolute value while maintaining the absolute value of the chromatic dispersion, and which has sufficient dispersion slope compensation properties even for the non-zero dispersion shifted optical fiber requiring a large RDS for dispersion compensation. In this dispersion compensating fiber, the radius of a ring core region is set in a range from 6.7 ?m to 10.7 ?m, the radius ratio of a depressed core region relative to a central core region is set in a range from 2.0 to 3.0, and the radius ratio of the ring core region relative to the depressed core region is set in a range from 1.3 to 2.0, the relative refractive index difference of the central core region relative to the cladding is set in a range from +1.00% to +1.80%, the relative refractive index difference of the depressed core region relative to the cladding is set in a range from ?1.20% to ?1.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical transmission system that enables high-speed transmission of 40 Gb/s with low residual dispersion while maintaining the yield of a dispersion compensating fiber. In the present invention, the dispersion compensating fiber is connected to each span of an optical fiber for transmission. One set of an optical transmission path is formed by this optical fiber for transmission and the dispersion compensating fiber, and this one set of optical transmission path is connected in multiple stages and connected to a transmitter and a receiver. By setting the conditions of dispersion compensation in each span comparatively leniently, managing the residual dispersion of each transmission span, and suitably arranging each transmission span, an optical transmission system is composed in which adequate dispersion compensation is performed over the entire optical transmission path.

Abstract: In fusion-splicing a dispersion compensating optical fiber having a negative dispersion slope, with a connection optical fiber having a different near field pattern from that of the dispersion compensating optical fiber, if for the connection optical fiber, one is selected such that a theoretical joint loss in a used wavelength, obtained from an overlap integral of a near field pattern of the dispersion compensating optical fiber after fusion splicing and a near field pattern of the connection optical fiber after fusion splicing is presumed to be 0.3 dB or less, in an unconnected state, a construction enabling connection at a low loss results.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical transmission system that enables high-speed transmission of 40 Gb/s with low residual dispersion while maintaining the yield of a dispersion compensating fiber. In the present invention, the dispersion compensating fiber is connected to each span of an optical fiber for transmission. One set of an optical transmission path is formed by this optical fiber for transmission and the dispersion compensating fiber, and this one set of optical transmission path is connected in multiple stages and connected to a transmitter and a receiver. By setting the conditions of dispersion compensation in each span comparatively leniently, managing the residual dispersion of each transmission span, and suitably arranging each transmission span, an optical transmission system is composed in which adequate dispersion compensation is performed over the entire optical transmission path.

Abstract: A dispersion compensating fiber, which has a negative dispersion slope with a large absolute value while maintaining the absolute value of the chromatic dispersion, and which has sufficient dispersion slope compensation properties even for the non-zero dispersion shifted optical fiber requiring a large RDS for dispersion compensation. In this dispersion compensating fiber, the radius of a ring core region is set in a range from 6.7 &mgr;m to 10.7 &mgr;m, the radius ratio of a depressed core region relative to a central core region is set in a range from 2.0 to 3.0, and the radius ratio of the ring core region relative to the depressed core region is set in a range from 1.3 to 2.0, the relative refractive index difference of the central core region relative to the cladding is set in a range from +1.00% to +1.80%, the relative refractive index difference of the depressed core region relative to the cladding is set in a range from −1.20% to −1.

Abstract: This dispersion compensating optical fiber comprises an uncovered dispersion compensating optical fiber which contains a core and a cladding and a resin coating which is disposed around the uncovered dispersion compensating optical fiber and which has an adhesive property of 10 g/mm or less. Alternatively, the dispersion compensating optical fiber comprises an uncovered dispersion compensating optical fiber which contains a core and a cladding and a resin coating which is disposed around the uncovered dispersion compensating optical fiber, which has an adhesive property of 1 g/mm or less, and which includes a single or double coating layer and an outer coating layer formed on the surface of the single or double coating layer to have a thickness of 3 &mgr;m or more.

Abstract: In fusion-splicing a dispersion compensating optical fiber having a negative dispersion slope, with a connection optical fiber having a different near field pattern from that of the dispersion compensating optical fiber, if for the connection optical fiber, one is selected such that a theoretical joint loss in a used wavelength, obtained from an overlap integral of a near field pattern of the dispersion compensating optical fiber after fusion splicing and a near field pattern of the connection optical fiber after fusion splicing is presumed to be 0.3 dB or less, in an unconnected state, a construction enabling connection at a low loss results.

Abstract: A self-routing multistage switching network for a fast packet switching system suitable for multimedia communication. The self-routing multistage switching network has packet buffer means for storing packets, provided only in an input stage and respectively connected to input ports, and switching networks having no packet storing function and provided after the packet buffer means. The self-routing multistage switching network detects beforehand while packets are transmitted therethrough whether or not the packets are transmitted therethrough instead of being discarded, reports information for identifying the packets which are transmitted instead of being discarded backward to the packet buffer means through transmission routes through which the packets have been transmitted, and deletes the packets stored in the packet buffer means and corresponding to the packets which are allowed to be transmitted through the self-routing multistage switching network after sending out the same packets.