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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2006
Ryo Miyabe, Tokyo, JP;
Yu Mimura, Tokyo, JP;
Ryo Miyabe, Tokyo, JP;
Yu Mimura, Tokyo, JP;
The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An optical fiber includes a core region and a cladding region. The cladding region includes a first cladding region on an outer circumference of the core region, the first cladding region including a main-medium region and a sub-medium region having a refractive index lower than a refractive index of the main-medium region. The sub-medium region includes inner sub-medium regions arranged at four folds rotationally symmetric centering on the core region, and outer sub-medium regions arranged at four folds rotationally symmetric centering on the core region on an outer side of the inner sub-medium regions.