Patent 10031285 was granted and assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries on July, 2018 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present embodiment relates to an MCF having a low transmission loss and having a structure for reducing a transmission loss and effectively suppressing an inter-core XT. The uncoupled MCF includes alkali metal having a predetermined concentration in which each of a plurality of cores contributes to reduction in the transmission loss, and a core pitch is set so that a sum h_total of power coupling coefficients of a specific core and the remaining all cores of the plurality of cores is 2.3×10−4/km or less.