National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Kunio Ikuma

Norio Tanaka

Ichiro Ueno

Takashi Hiraga

Noritaka Yamamoto

Toshiko Mizokuro

Nobutaka Tanigaki

Kuniaki Aoki

Masutaka Koyano

In an end surface closely arranged multicore optical fiber, at least two single-mode optical fibersare, at one and the other ends of the individual single-mode optical fibers, closely arranged in parallel to each other and bound together, such that a center-center distance of adjacent single-mode optical fibersis twice a core diameter of the single-mode optical fiberor greater andtimes a value obtained by subtracting the core diameter of the single-mode optical fiber from a core diameter of a multimode optical fiber to be connected or less, and that the remaining individual single-mode optical fibersare individually independent from each other.

End-surface closely arranged multicore optical fiber and manufacturing method thereof

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Hamamatsu, Japan

Kunio Ikuma