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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2008
Hyang Kyun Kim, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shanhui Fan, Stanford, CA (US);
Gordon S. Kino, Stanford, CA (US);
Jonghwa Shin, Stanford, CA (US);
Michel J. F. Digonnet, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Vinayak Dangui, Stanford, CA (US);
Hyang Kyun Kim, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shanhui Fan, Stanford, CA (US);
Gordon S. Kino, Stanford, CA (US);
Jonghwa Shin, Stanford, CA (US);
Michel J. F. Digonnet, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Vinayak Dangui, Stanford, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An optical fiber includes a cladding with a material having a first refractive index and a pattern of regions formed therein. Each of the regions has a second refractive index lower than the first refractive index. The optical fiber further includes a core region and a core ring surrounding the core region and having an inner perimeter, an outer perimeter, and a thickness between the inner perimeter and the outer perimeter. The thickness is sized to reduce the number of ring surface modes supported by the core ring.