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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2012
Stephen T. Kreger, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Paul F. Wysocki, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Jeff T. Lacroix, Christiansburg, VA (US);
Stephen T. Kreger, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Paul F. Wysocki, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Jeff T. Lacroix, Christiansburg, VA (US);
INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A twisted, multicore fiber communicates light input to each core to an output. The twisting mitigates relative time delays of the input light traveling through each of the cores in the multicore fiber to the output caused by bending of that multicore fiber. An example application is in an optical network that includes an optical input terminal and an optical sensor connected by a twisted multicore connecting fiber. One example of twisted multicore optical fiber is helically-wrapped, multicore fiber.