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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2019
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
John David Downie, Painted Post, NY (US);
Ming-Jun Li, Horseheads, NY (US);
William Allen Wood, Painted Post, NY (US);
Aramais Robert Zakharian, Painted Post, NY (US);
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
A quasi-single-mode (QSM) optical fiber includes a core and a cladding surrounding the core. The core includes a centerline and an outer edge. The cladding includes an interior edge and an exterior edge. The cladding has a cladding outer diameter defined by the exterior edge of the cladding. The cladding outer diameter may be in the range of greater than 170 μm to about 200 μm. The QSM fiber has a cabled cutoff wavelength that is greater than about 1530 nm. The core and the cladding support a fundamental mode LPand a higher-order mode LP. The fundamental mode LPhas an effective area A.