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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2023
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Paulo Clovis Dainese, Jr., Painted Post, NY (US);
Wei Jiang, Vestal, NY (US);
Ming-Jun Li, Horseheads, NY (US);
Xiaojun Liang, Chino Hills, CA (US);
Dan Trung Nguyen, Painted Post, NY (US);
Ilia Andreyevich Nikulin, Wilmington, NC (US);
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
A hollow-core optical fiber may include a substrate having a tubular shape and an inner surface surrounding a central longitudinal axis of the hollow-core optical fiber; a hollow core extending through the substrate along the central longitudinal axis of the hollow-core optical fiber; and a plurality of cladding elements positioned between the central longitudinal axis of the hollow-core optical fiber and the substrate. Each of the plurality of cladding elements may extend in a direction parallel to the central longitudinal axis of the hollow-core optical fiber. Each of the plurality of cladding elements may include a wound glass sheet configured as a spiral, and each of the plurality of cladding elements may contact an interior surface of the substrate.