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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2014
Applicant:
University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, GB;
Inventors:
Eric Rodrigue Numkam Fokoua, Southampton, GB;
Francesco Poletti, Southampton, GB;
David John Richardson, Southampton, GB;
Assignee:
University of Southampton, Hampshire, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/02357 (2013.01); G02B 6/02328 (2013.01); G02B 6/02347 (2013.01);
Abstract
A hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber having a hollow core and a cladding which surrounds the core at a core boundary and comprises a lattice or network of struts and interstitial nodes which together define an array of cavities, wherein a ratio between a difference in a length of a longest and shortest pitch spacing of the nodes at the core boundary to an average pitch spacing at the core boundary is less than about 0.3.