Abstract:
An object is to obtain an optical fiber having a small diameter and suppressing the increase of a microbending loss of the optical fiber. The optical fiber includes: a core portion made of silica glass; a cladding portion made of silica glass, the cladding portion covering the outer periphery of the core portion and having a refractive index smaller than a maximum refractive index of the core portion; and a coating portion covering the outer periphery of the cladding portion. The outer diameter of the cladding portion is 100 μm or smaller, the relative refractive-index difference Δ1 of the core portion is 0.5% or smaller, and the thickness of the coating portion is 10 μm or larger.
Abstract:
An optical fiber includes a core portion and a cladding portion that is formed on an outer periphery of the core portion and has a refractive index lower than a maximum refractive index of the core portion. Characteristics at a wavelength of 1550 nm are an effective core area of a fundamental propagation mode of equal to or larger than 120 μm2, an effective core area of a first higher-order propagation mode of equal to or larger than 170 μm2, and an effective refractive index of the first higher-order propagation mode of larger than the refractive index of the cladding portion by equal to or larger than 0.0005.
Abstract:
An optical transmission system includes: a multi-core optical fiber having a plurality of core portions. Signal light beams having wavelengths different from each other are caused to be input to adjacent core portions of the plurality of core portions. The adjacent core portions are the most adjacent to each other in the multi-core optical fiber.