This paper aims to improve the post-fabrication transmission performance of nested hollow-core fibers (HCF) by incorporating random perturbations inside the cladding structure in the fiber model and evaluating their impact on the overall guidance performance by applying a Monte-Carlo simulation strategy. Varying silicawall thicknesses, asymmetric misalignments of the nested and surrounding cladding elements, and anisotropic deformations are investigated and result in loss increases up to 2%, 6%, and 62%, respectively, for fundamental mode propagation at 1.55 μm. Higher-order modes are affected over one magnitude stronger, although the impact is highly wavelength-dependent, switching dominating effect and mode susceptibility dynamically.
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