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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2017
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The present embodiment relates to an optical fiber having a W-type refractive index d profile or a trench-type refractive index profile and having reduced microbending loss in a wavelength band to be actually used. The optical fiber includes a center core, an inner cladding surrounding the center core, and an outer cladding surrounding the inner cladding. The inner cladding has a refractive index lower than a refractive index of at least the center core and the outer cladding has a refractive index lower than the refractive index of the center core and higher than the refractive index of the inner cladding. Wavelength dependency of microbending loss has a local maximal value and a shortest wavelength λwhere the microbending loss becomes 10% of the local maximal value is longer than 1560 nm.