Ofs Fitel, LLC

Andrei A Stolov

Debra A Simoff

Adam Hokansson

David Burgess

Xiaoguang Sun

Michael J Hines

Robert S Dyer

Jacob Wrubel

Natalia Reyngold

Kevin G Bouchard

Disclosed herein is a composition for coating an optical fiber comprising a free radically curable acrylate and/or a methacrylate functionalized oligomer having a density of less than 1.0 g/cm; where the acrylate and/or the methacrylate functionalized oligomer has a functionality of 1 or more; a photoinitiator; and optionally a free radically curable acrylate and/or methacrylate diluent monomer that has a density of less than 1.0 g/cm; where the coating composition is disposed and cured on an optical fiber; where the density of the cured coating is less than 1.0 g/cm; and where the average functionality of the composition is greater than one.

Low density UV-curable optical fiber coating, fiber made therewith, and method of fiber manufacture

Embodiments are directed to a method and device for coupling an optical fiber sensing element to an apparatus under test. A channel is affixed to the apparatus under test. The channel is partially filled with a coupling material. The fiber optic sensing element is placed on the coupling material. Coupling material is placed in the channel to uniformly surround the fiber optic sensing element and tightly couple the fiber optic sensing element to the apparatus under test.

Affixing fiber optic sensing element to an apparatus

Disclosed herein is a composition comprising 65 to 95 weight percent of a fluorinated monofunctional monomer; 5 to 35 weight percent of a fluorinated multifunctional monomer; and 0.5 to 3 weight percent of a silane coupling agent; where all weight percents are based on the total weight of the composition; where the fluorinated monofunctional monomer and the fluorinated multifunctional monomer are devoid of any trifunctional fluorocarbon moieties when they have 6 or more fluorocarbon repeat units; where the fluorocarbon repeat units are CFor CF moieties; and where a crosslinked composition has a shore D hardness of 56 to 85 and has a refractive index (RI) that meets the limitation of the equation RI&#x2264;1.368+10.8/X, where X denotes wavelength in nanometers.

Low refractive index coating for optical fibers, methods of manufacture thereof and articles comprising the same

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Simsbury, CT, United States of America

Andrei A Stolov