Corning Incorporated
OPTICAL SYSTEMS COMPRISING MULTI-CORE OPTICAL FIBERS FOR REALIZING DIRECT CORE TO CORE COUPLING

Abstract:

A multi core optical fiber that includes a plurality of cores disposed in a cladding. The plurality of cores include a first core and a second core. The first core has a first propagation constant .beta..sub.1, the second core has a second propagation constant .beta..sub.2, the cladding has a cladding propagation constant .beta..sub.0, and (I).