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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Dominique Bayart, Clamart, FR;
Laurent Berthelot, Orsay, FR;
Assignee:
Alcatel, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/20 ;
Abstract
An optical fiber with a large effective surface area has holes at points in at least two layers concentric with the fiber of points of a regular matrix. The holes in one layer have the same dimensions and occupy all the available points in the layer. In at least two layers the holes have different dimensions and there is at least one layer with no holes.