Optical fiber and method of manufacturing the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10422949-B2
Application number	US-201816037186-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 17, 2018
Priority date	Jul 18, 2017
Publication date	Sep 24, 2019
Grant date	Sep 24, 2019

Abstract

An optical fiber includes a core, a depressed inner cladding surrounding the core, and an outer cladding surrounding the inner cladding, where a refractive index profile of the core includes an α power distribution in which an index α is 3.5 or more and 6 or less, a relative refractive index difference Δ− of the inner cladding with respect to the adding is set such that an absolute value |Δ−| thereof is 0.01% or more and 0.045% or less, a radius r1 of the core and an outer circumference radius r2 of the inner cladding are set such that a ratio r1/r2 thereof is 0.2 or more and 0.6 or less, a cable cutoff wavelength λcc of 22 m is 1260 nm or less, and a mode field diameter MFD at a wavelength of 1310 nm is 8.6 μm or more and 9.5 μm or less.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An optical fiber, comprising:
a core;
a depressed inner cladding surrounding the core; and
an outer cladding surrounding the inner cladding, wherein:
a refractive index profile of the core comprises an α power distribution in which an index α is 3.5 or more and 6 or less,
a relative refractive index difference Δ − of the inner cladding with respect to the outer cladding is set such that an absolute value |Δ − | thereof is 0.01% or more and 0.045% or less,
a radius r1 of the core and an outer circumference radius r2 of the inner cladding are set such that a ratio r1/r2 thereof is 0.3 or more and 0.6 or less,
a cable cutoff wavelength λ cc of 22 m is 1260 nm or less, and
a mode field diameter MFD at a wavelength of 1310 nm is 8.6 μm or more and 9.5 μm or less.

2. The optical fiber according to claim 1 , wherein the refractive index profile of the core comprises an α power distribution in which an index α is 5 or more and 6 or less.

3. The optical fiber according to claim 1 , wherein the relative refractive index difference Δ − is set such that the absolute value |Δ − | thereof is 0.01% or more and 0.03% or less.

4. The optical fiber according to claim 1 , wherein the radius r1 and the outer circumference radius r2 are set such that the ratio r1/r2 thereof is 0.25 or more and 0.55 or less.

5. The optical fiber according to claim 1 , wherein a relative refractive index difference Δ + of the core with respect to the outer cladding is set to be 0.30% or more and 0.45% or less.

6. The optical fiber according to claim 1 , wherein a zero dispersion wavelength ZDW is 1305 nm or more.

7. The optical fiber according to claim 5 , wherein the zero dispersion wavelength ZDW is 1307 nm or more.

8. The optical fiber according to claim 1 , wherein the mode field diameter MFD is 8.8 μm or more and 9.4 μm or less.

9. The optical fiber according to claim 1 , wherein (1) an increase in loss at a wavelength of 1550 nm when the optical fiber is wound around a cylindrical mandrel having a radius of 10 mm is less than 0.75 dB/turn, (2) an increase in loss at a wavelength of 1625 nm when the optical fiber is wound around a cylindrical mandrel having a radius of 10 mm is less than 1.5 dB/turn, (3) an increase in loss at a wavelength of 1550 nm when the optical fiber is wound around a cylindrical mandrel having a radius of 15 mm is less than 0.25 dB/10 turn, and (4) an increase in loss at a wavelength of 1625 nm when the optical fiber is wound around a cylindrical mandrel having a radius of 15 mm is less than 1.0 dB/10 turn.

10. A method of manufacturing the optical fiber according to claim 1 , the method comprising the step of:
manufacturing a preform for the optical fiber through a vapor-phase axial deposition (VAD) method.

Assignees

• Fujikura Ltd

Inventors

• Maruyama Ryo

Classifications

• G02B6/0281

  Graded index region forming part of the central core segment, e.g. alpha profile, triangular, trapezoidal core (G02B6/0288, G02B6/0286 take precedence) · CPC title

• G02B6/02009 Primary

  Large effective area or mode field radius, e.g. to reduce nonlinear effects in single mode fibres · CPC title

• G02B6/03627

  arranged - + · CPC title

• G02B6/02214

  tailored to obtain the desired dispersion, e.g. dispersion shifted, dispersion flattened · CPC title

• G02B6/0288

  Multimode fibre, e.g. graded index core for compensating modal dispersion · CPC title