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US 8,503,845 B2Granted
Multi-core optical fiber and optical communication systems
AssigneeAlcatel Lucent
InventorsPeter J. Winzer, Christopher Richard Doerr
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Abstract
An apparatus includes an optical fiber having a plurality of optical cores therein. Each optical core is located lateral in the optical fiber to the remaining one or more optical cores and is able to support a number of propagating optical modes at telecommunications wavelengths. Each number is less than seventy.
Claims19
An apparatus, comprising:
- an optical fiber having a plurality of optical cores therein, each optical core being located lateral in the optical fiber to the remaining one or more optical cores and being able to support a number of propagating optical modes at telecommunications wavelengths, each number being less than or equal to seventy.
An apparatus comprising:
- an optical communication device having one of an optical transmitter with a plurality of optical data modulators and an optical receiver with a plurality of optical data demodulators;
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- a sequence of one or more spans of optical fiber, the sequence being optically connected at one end to the optical transmitter or receiver;
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- wherein each optical fiber of the sequence has three or more optical cores, each optical core is able to support a number of propagating optical modes at telecommunications wavelengths, and each number is less than or equal to fifty.
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