Microstructured optical fiber

Abstract

In an optical fiber having a core region and a cladding region which surrounds the core region, wherein a plurality of regions made of sub mediums having refractive index different from that of the main medium constituting the cladding region are spaced apart in cross section of the cladding region and the mean refractive index of the core region is lower than that of the cladding region, the sub-medium regions are regularly arranged in the radial direction of said optical fiber such that the light having given wavelength, propagation coefficient and electric field distribution propagates along the fiber axis and has not less than 50% of a total propagating power in the core region, and this arrangement does not have translational symmetry in cross section.

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