Multi-core optical fiber and optical communication systems
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
- an optical fiber having a plurality of optical cores therein, each optical core being located lateral in the optical fiber to the remaining one or more optical cores and being able to support a number of propagating optical modes at telecommunications wavelengths, each number being less than or equal to seventy.
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An apparatus includes an optical fiber having a plurality of optical cores therein. Each optical core is located lateral in the optical fiber to the remaining one or more optical cores and is able to support a number of propagating optical modes at telecommunications wavelengths. Each number is less than seventy.
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
an optical fiber having a plurality of optical cores therein, each optical core being located lateral in the optical fiber to the remaining one or more optical cores and being able to support a number of propagating optical modes at telecommunications wavelengths, each number being less than or equal to seventy. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An apparatus comprising:
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an optical communication device having one of an optical transmitter with a plurality of optical data modulators and an optical receiver with a plurality of optical data demodulators; and a sequence of one or more spans of optical fiber, the sequence being optically connected at one end to the optical transmitter or receiver; and wherein each optical fiber of the sequence has three or more optical cores, each optical core is able to support a number of propagating optical modes at telecommunications wavelengths, and each number is less than or equal to fifty. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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