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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7373055 | System and method for providing a buffer tube including a jet A system and method for providing a buffer tube. The system includes a crosshead that coats at least one optical fiber with a buffer tube coating; a vat that includes a fluid, the fluid within the vat cooling the buffer tube coating to form a buffer tube, and the va... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7295737 | Mechanically strippable upcoated optical fiber An upcoated optical fiber includes an optical fiber having a ultra-violet (UV) curable upcoating and a slip layer disposed between the optical fiber and the upcoating. The upcoating is mechanically strippable from the optical fiber and may be colored for identificat... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7247347 | Method of coating an optical fiber A method of coating an optical fiber includes a step of coating the fiber with a curable coating composition and a step of curing the composition, which contains an unsaturated compound having a double bond and an oxidation catalyst. The curing step includes an in-l... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7209604 | Anti-PMD system The invention provides an anti-PMD system comprising: an anti-PMD pulley (1) over which an optical fiber (4) is to roll and which is mounted to rotate about an axis of rotation (ar); and at least two optical fiber guide devices (2, 3) situated o... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7201939 | Optical fiber with antireflection coating, and method for manufacturing the same An optical member (for example, optical fiber) is dipped in a coating solution having a film forming material dissolved therein to form an antireflection film on the end surface of the optical member. When the optical member is pulled up from the coating solution, t... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200310 | Optical fiber Optical fiber capable of controlling attenuation losses caused by microbending on the signal transmitted thereby. The optical fiber comprises: a) an internal glass portion; b) a first coating layer of a first polymeric material surrounding said glass portion; and c)... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7162130 | Optical fiber with thermoplastic material based coating Optical fiber having a glass portion; at least one protective coating of thermoplastic material having at least one thermoplastic elastomer; the thermoplastic material having the following characteristics: a modulus of elasticity value at +25° C. lower than 150 MPa... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7120323 | Reduction of linear birefringence in circular-cored single-mode fiber A method is described for reducing the effect of linear birefringence in an optical fiber, in particular a circular-cored single-mode fiber. The invention may also be directed to an optical fiber having a reduced linear birefringence. A length of the optical fiber m... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7088900 | Alkali and fluorine doped optical fiber Disclosed is an optical fiber having a core of SiO2 doped with fluorine and an alkali metal oxide dopant. The alkali metal oxide is selected from the group consisting of K, Na, Li, Cs and Rb and is provided in amount of at least 20 ppm wt. %. The fiber ha... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7067564 | Coated optical fibers The invention relates to coated optical fibers comprising soft primary coatings and to such primary coatings for protecting glass optical fibers having a sufficient high resistance against cavitation. In particular, the primary coatings have a cavitation strength at... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7035525 | Methods and apparatuses for correcting mechanical twist in optical fiber Methods and apparatuses negate a measured mechanical twist of an optical fiber by introducing a counteracting twist to bring the net mechanical twist closer to zero, which reduces the fiber's polarization mode dispersion (PMD). A spool of optical fiber having undesi... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6923023 | Methods and apparatuses for controlling optical fiber primary coating diameter Methods and apparatuses estimate and control optical fiber primary coating diameter for wet-on-wet optical fiber manufacturing. The primary coating diameter for a particular length of optical fiber is calculated based upon a measurement of the weight of primary and/... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6915051 | Spacer for optical fiber cable, method for producing said spacer, and optical fiber cable using said spacer In applying an intermediate coating layer of thermoplastic resin onto the periphery of a central tensile member and applying a main coating of polyethylene resin, having continuous spiral grooves that are for accommodating optical fibers and are inverted periodicall... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6877344 | Preparation of optical fiber An optical fiber is prepared by applying a liquid electron beam-curable resin composition to a bare optical fiber or a coated optical fiber having a primary or secondary coating on a bare optical fiber, irradiating electron beams to the resin composition on the opti... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6851282 | Apparatus and method for making optical fiber A drawing apparatus 1 has a drawing furnace 11, a heating furnace 21, and a resin curing section 31. The drawing furnace 11 has a muffle tube 13 to which an He gas supply passage 15 from an He gas supply section 14... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6767579 | Methods for protecting silica-containing article in optical fiber manufacturing A method of protecting a silica-containing article used in the manufacture of an optical fiber includes the step of applying to the silica-containing article a protective layer that facilitates removal of particulates that deposit on the protective layer and that ab... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6739157 | Method of applying a protective organic coating to an optical glass fibre The invention relates to a method of applying a protective organic coating to an optical glass fiber, said glass fiber is drawn from a preform and passed through a liquid which contains the material for forming said organic coating, once the amount of liquid coating... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6612134 | Method of curing coated optical fibers The present invention relates to a method of making an optical fiber product. In particular, this manufacturing method is characterized in that, between a drawing step in which a coated optical fiber comprising a glass fiber and a primary coating layer di... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6550282 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing an optical fiber from a preform A method for manufacturing an optical fiber (100) having low PMD, comprises the steps of: a) heating at least one end portion (3a) of a preform (3); b) drawing an optical fiber (100) from a free end of said heated end portion (3a) along a fiber drawing axis (I... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6530243 | Method of making an optical fiber with an improved UV-curable resin A method of drawing an optical fiber which can improve the efficiency in manufacture without deforming resin coatings is provided. The method of drawing an optical fiber in accordance with the present invention is a method in which an optical fiber yieldi... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6387454 | Stabilizing a glass-ceramic A method of stabilizing a glass-ceramic body, particularly an aluminosilicate body, for use as a telecommunications component in a humid atmosphere, comprises coating the body with an aqueous solution of an alkali metasilicate, with a solution of a silane... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6327876 | Method for producing a coated optical fiber with reduced polarization mode dispersion An apparatus and method for forming a optical fiber (102) which includes a furnace (104) for softening an optical fiber blank (106); a tractor (114) for drawing the optical fiber (102) from the softened optical fiber blank (106); and a first applicator (1... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6322888 | Method for producing sized glass fibers and resulting products A process for producing sized glass yarns, which entails: a) drawing streams of molten glass from orifices located at a bottom of one or more dies, in a form of one or more fans of continuous filaments, b) assembling the filaments into one or more moving supports, ... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6189343 | Apparatus and method for forming an optical fiber An apparatus for forming a optical fiber which includes a furnace for softening an optical fiber blank; a tractor for drawing the optical fiber from the softened optical fiber blank; and a first applicator for applying a coating of a first coating materia... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6185962 | Method for forming pre-impregnated fibers suitable for processing into a composite article A method is disclosed for forming coated fibers suitable for making a composite article. A plurality of fibers are coated with an aqueous- or non-aqueous-based chemical treatment containing a curable resin such that the resin on the fibers is in a partial... | 02/13/2001 |
| 5974837 | Method for coating fibers In the process of drawing optical fibers, a protective plastic coating is applied to the fiber by applying a curable liquid coating material thereto and the subsequently curing the liquid coating to a protective plastic layer. At high fiber draw speeds, a... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5961684 | Sizing composition for glass strands, process using this composition and resulting products A glass yarn sizing composition consisting of a solution having a viscosity of at most 400 cP and including less than 5 wt. % of solvent and at least one basic heat-polymerisable system which includes at least 60 wt. % of components having a molecular wei... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5942020 | Apparatus for evacuating air from curing area of UV lamps for fiber-like substrates The invention provides a device for blocking the ingress of air on the surface of a moving member such as an optical fiber. The blocking of air is achieved by the establishment of a low pressure zone at the entry point of the fiber, the lower pressure zon... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5903690 | Method for changing the refraction index in germanium silicate glass The present invention relates to a method for changing the refractive index in an element comprising germanium silicate glass by irradiating the germanium silicate glass with laser radiation having an associated wavelength in the range of 270 nm to 390 nm... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5858053 | Method for coating an optical fiber with transducer in a bath of coating material An improved method of coating an optical fiber is disclosed. A transducer is submerged in a container of liquid coating material and activated so that it causes the formation of a wave of coating material within the container. The optical fiber is then dr... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5701376 | Polarized-wave-dispersion- preventive optical fiber and its manufacturing method An optical fiber comprises a core line, which includes a core and a cladding, and a cover. The core line is twisted 90° clockwise and counterclockwise alternately at predetermined intervals (for example, every 30 meters). The twisted portion in the core ... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5647884 | Apparatus for reducing deformation of a coating on a coated optical fiber A capstan belt (80) is mounted on a pair of pulleys (82,83) for engagement with the surface of a draw capstan (75), the capstan belt (80) being driven for rotation on the pair of pulleys (82,83) by rotational movement of the capstan (75). A coated optical... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5581647 | Method of fabricating dispersion compensation fiber In a method of fabricating DCF, the fiber is drawn while rotating said optical fiber preform, wherein a rotational speed of said optical fiber preform is 10 to 1,000 rpm, a drawing speed is 50 to 1,000 m/min, and a drawing tension is 2.4 to 13 kg/mm2... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5567219 | Polyimide coated heavy metal fluoride glass fiber and method of manufacture A method of making a polyimide coated heavy metal fluorinated fiber includes the steps of drawing an optical fiber through a low-temperature curing polyimide solution to form a polyimide coating which cures in a range of about 200° and 390° C. A low cur... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5444808 | Plastics packaged optical fibre and method of making same An optical fibre, comprising a glass core 10 surrounded by a glass cladding (11) of lower refractive index, is provided with inner and outer relatively high modulus plastics layers (12 and 14) spaced apart by a relatively low modulus layer 13. The low mod... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5418881 | Article comprising optical fiber having low polarization mode dispersion, due to permanent spin The presence of (typically unintended) birefringence in single mode optical fiber can severely limit the usefulness of the fiber for, e.g., high bit rate or analog optical fiber communication systems, due to the resulting polarization mode dispersion (PMD... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5373578 | Strippable coating for optical fiber A coating system for individual glass fibers of a lightwave communications system has improved strippability, particularly in situations where a group of such fibers are arrayed together in what is known as a ribbon. A preferred embodiment includes two la... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5298047 | Method of making a fiber having low polarization mode dispersion due to a permanent spin The presence of (typically unintended) birefringence in single mode optical fiber can severely limit the usefulness of the fiber for, e.g., high bit rate or analog optical fiber communication systems, due to the resulting polarization mode dispersion (PMD... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5294260 | Apparatus for curing coatings on drawn optical fiber A curing apparatus which is supported from a base plate (68) includes a housing which includes guide members for holding a magnetron and one portion of an elliptical chamber in which is disposed a longitudinally extending bulb. Outside the housing are tri... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5294240 | Method of forming waveguides with ion exchange of halogen ions This invention pertains to optical waveguides which includes waveguides of ll shapes and sizes, preforms, and optical fibers made from the preforms, and to a method for making waveguides devoid of a physical interface. The method includes preparation of a ... | 03/15/1994 |
