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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2009
Randy Lee Bennett, Painted Post, NY (US);
Scott Robertson Bickham, Corning, NY (US);
Paulo Clóvis Dainese, Jr., Painted Post, NY (US);
Ming-jun LI, Horseheads, NY (US);
Peter Joseph Ronco, Horseheads, NY (US);
Randy Lee Bennett, Painted Post, NY (US);
Scott Robertson Bickham, Corning, NY (US);
Paulo Clóvis Dainese, Jr., Painted Post, NY (US);
Ming-Jun Li, Horseheads, NY (US);
Peter Joseph Ronco, Horseheads, NY (US);
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
Bend resistant multimode optical fibers are disclosed herein. Multimode optical fibers disclosed herein comprise a core region having a radius greater than 30 microns and a cladding region surrounding and directly adjacent to the core region, the cladding region comprising a depressed-index annular portion comprising a depressed relative refractive index. The fiber has a total outer diameter of less than 120 microns, and exhibits an overfilled bandwidth at 850 nm greater than 500 MHz-km.