The product label sows it is produced in May 2000 by Lucent.  It is truewave plus fiber, after we compared fiber ID info with known truewave plus fiber. It was acquired from a closed startup company which developed DWDM long-haul systems in 2001. Made in 2000 by Lucent. See specification at last pdf link below. This spool is acquired from Bookham (formal Nortel laser group).

See loss and length test result by our lab in the last photo below.

See year 1998 datasheet in 1st pdf link and year 2003 datasheet in 2nd pdf link below.



The following message is from http://www.olson-technology.com/mr_fiber/Fiber_Types.htm
NZ-DSF was developed to counteract the FWM limitations of DSF. The idea is to move lambda0 to either end of the 1550 nm band, thus ensuring that all of the wavelength channels have slightly different optical speeds in the fiber. Common brands are TrueWave Classic (Lambda0 < 1530 nm), TrueWave Plus (Lambda0 = 1497 nm), TrueWave RS (Lambda0 < 1452 nm) by Lucent, and SMF-LS (Lambda0 > 1560 nm) by Corning. The advantage that these fibers have over DSF is a compromise solution of a slightly lower degree of integrated dispersion compensation for a higher tolerance to non-linear distortion effects. Available with positive dispersion (+D) NZ-DSF and negative dispersion (-D) NZ-DSF.


The following message is from 3rd pdf link below:
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The first generation of Truewave fiber was originally developed in 1993 by ATT. Since then, the Truewave family has evolved under the Lucent brand.

After the TW-AT&T, the next member of the family was named Truewave Classic (TW-C). In the data
sheet below, we notice a slightly higher CD coefficient and a slightly reduced dispersion slope compared to the TW-AT&T.

Following the TW-C, Lucent introduced the Truewave Plus (TW+). Even in this case the CD properties
have been modified. The rest of the optical parameters are left unchanged.

The Truewave evolution continued with the introduction of major changes in the Truewave Reduced Slope (TW-RS), which, according to Lucent, represent the largest part of installed Truewave. The TW-RS is characterized by a higher CD and shows a decrease of about 36% in the dispersion slope. These two
properties translate in a performance improvement for high-density DWDM applications.

The latest member of Truewave family, the Truewave Reach, has been introduced in 2002. The TW Reach is a fiber optimized for application in the S, C and L band and for Raman assisted amplification. (The datasheet is currently not available).
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