Multicore fibers provide a platform for the next generation telecommunication devices and sensor systems. In the telecoms sector, multicore fibers can be used to dramatically reduce the amount of space required for cables and connectors in data centers and exchanges. By combining multiple signal lines into a single connector space, space division multiplexing schemes can be utilized to save space and give high bandwidth cables. For the biomedical sector, the fiber has photosensitive cores, allowing Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) inscription into each core, giving the ability to use the fiber as a 3D shape sensor, as deployed in catheters and other medical tools for minimally invasive procedures.

Advantages:

• Simultaneous transmission of different signals down different cores
• Photosensitive core designs for FBG inscription
• Suitable for biomedical catheter shape sensing applications
• Can be used as the transmission line for high data rate cables in data centers
• Custom designs possible: more cores, miss-matched cores, different core positions 

Typical applications:

• Shape Sensings
• Datacenter Transmission Cables
• Temperature and Strain Sensors 

Product Variants:

• SM-4C 1550(8.0/125) Four SM cores within a standard 125μm cladding diameter, designed for use at 1550nm in data cables and shape sensing probes 

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