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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2015
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Seldon David Benjamin, Spring, TX (US);
Kevin Wallace Bennett, Hammondsport, NY (US);
CORNING INCORPORATED, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to an optical fiber that includes a glass core region that has nano-sized structures configured to scatter light propagating in the glass core region. The glass core region has an average refractive index n. The fiber includes an interior glass cladding region that has an interior cladding refractive index nthat is less than n. The fiber includes an outer cladding region that has an outer cladding refractive index nthat is less than n. A refractive index difference of n−ncorresponds to a bend uniformity diameter; the light exiting the outer cladding at a fiber bending location is substantially non-uniform when a bending diameter of the fiber bending location is less than the bend uniformity diameter.