Abstract. Contemporary optical fibers can deal with almost all of the unfavorable effects which are known these days. They have sufficiently low specific slump, they can handle a slump caused by OH-ions, they can restrain the multimode effect and finally they can compensate a chromatic dispersion. But there is one problem, which the present science can't solve and this problem is the Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD), This effect is a restricting factor of high-speed long-distance optical routes. The capacity increase of the existing opfical routes is more often realized by multiplexing methods. Using more wavelengths makes multiplication of the optical fiber transfer rate possible. It evokes not only the advancement of fiber letting (known as "Dark Fiber" service), but more often also a single wavelength letting.
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