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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2004
Katsuaki Izoe, Sakura, JP;
Kuniharu Himeno, Sakura, JP;
Yukihiro Sakaguchi, Sakura, JP;
Tatsuya Itoh, Sakura, JP;
Katsuaki Izoe, Sakura, JP;
Kuniharu Himeno, Sakura, JP;
Yukihiro Sakaguchi, Sakura, JP;
Tatsuya Itoh, Sakura, JP;
Fujikura Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A polarization-maintaining optical fiber which exhibits an excellent polarization-maintaining performance and significantly low splice loss when spliced with a polarization-maintaining optical fiber having a cladding 125 μm in diameter even if the polarization-maintaining optical fiber has a small-diameter cladding of about 80 μm. The polarization-maintaining optical fiber includes a core, a pair of stress-applying parts provided radially outwardly with respect to the core, and a cladding which surrounds the core and the stress-applying parts. With a diameter D of the stress-applying parts between 21 μm and 32 μm, a distance R between the stress-applying parts between 6 μm and 17 μm, and a relative refractive index difference Δ between 0.3% to 0.5%, a sufficiently large mode field diameter (MFD) is obtained; thus splice loss can be reduced.