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Ning GUAN Katsuaki IZOE Katsuhiro TAKENAGA Ryuji SUZUKI Kazuhiko AIKAWA Kuniharu HIMENO
We have developed a novel type of holey fiber which has a conventional raised-index core surrounded by two layers of air holes with different sizes. The fiber has single-mode operation and shows a low bending loss even for an extremely small bending diameter and a low splicing loss for fusion splicing to a conventional single-mode fiber. The structure and the properties of the fiber are reported in this paper.