Bandwidth-maintaining multimode optical fibers

The specification describes multimode optical fibers with specific design parameters, i.e., controlled refractive index design ratios and dimensions, which render the optical fibers largely immune to moderately severe bends. The modal structure in the optical fibers is also largely unaffected by ben...

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Main Authors VAIDYA, DURGESH SHIVRAM, OULUNDSEN, GEORGE E, JIANG, XINLI, KIM, JINKEE, YAN, MAN F
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 24.03.2010
Subjects
OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS
OPTICS
PHYSICS
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Summary:The specification describes multimode optical fibers with specific design parameters, i.e., controlled refractive index design ratios and dimensions, which render the optical fibers largely immune to moderately severe bends. The modal structure in the optical fibers is also largely unaffected by bending, thus leaving the optical fiber bandwidth essentially unimpaired. Bend performance results were established by DMD measurements of fibers wound on mandrels vs. measurements of fibers with no severe bends.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20090011817