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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2012
Applicant:
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/42 (2006.01); G02B 6/02 (2006.01); H04B 10/2581 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/02042 (2013.01); G02B 6/4246 (2013.01); H04B 10/2581 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a multi-core optical fiber applicable to an optical transmission line of bi-directional optical communication and a bi-directional optical communication method. The multi-core optical fiber has plural cores in a common cladding. Signal light is transmitted in a first direction through an arbitrary core among the cores, whereas the signal light is transmitted in a second direction opposite to a first direction, through all the nearest-neighbor cores to the arbitrary core.