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Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2014

Filed:

Jun. 16, 2011
Applicants:

Michael Joseph Messerly, Danville, CA (US);

Raymond John Beach, Livermore, CA (US);

John Edward Heebner, Livermore, CA (US);

Jay Walter Dawson, Livermore, CA (US);

Paul Henry Pax, Haward, CA (US);

Inventors:

Michael Joseph Messerly, Danville, CA (US);

Raymond John Beach, Livermore, CA (US);

John Edward Heebner, Livermore, CA (US);

Jay Walter Dawson, Livermore, CA (US);

Paul Henry Pax, Haward, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/036 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A deterministic methodology is provided for designing optical fibers that support field-flattened, ring-like higher order modes. The effective and group indices of its modes can be tuned by adjusting the widths of the guide's field-flattened layers or the average index of certain groups of layers. The approach outlined here provides a path to designing fibers that simultaneously have large mode areas and large separations between the propagation constants of its modes.


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