Corning Optical Communications LLC

Corning Cable Systems

Corning Research & Development Corporation

David Alan Seddon

Kenneth Darrell Temple, Jr

Warren Welborn McAlpine

Julian Latelle Greenwood, Iii

Michael John Gimblet

Bradley Jerome Blazer

Jason Clay Lail

Anne Germaine Bringuier

George Cornelius Abernathy

William Carl Hurley

William Welch McCollough

James Lee Baucom

Jody L Greenwood

Allen Michael Miller

Dana Craig Bookbinder

Pushkar Tandon

Rodney Maurice Burns

Christopher Mark Quinn

William S Jackman

Harold Edward Hudson, Ii

Reginald Roberts

Brandon Robert Williamson

Riley Saunders Freeland

Kimberly Dawn Slan

Scott Allen McDowell

James D Mohler

Ming-Jun Li

James Arthur Register, Iii

Rebecca Elizabeth Sistare

Inna Igorevna Kouzmina

Warren W Mcalpine

Richard Steven Wagman

Eric John Mozdy

Eric Raymond Logan

Adra Smith Baca

Manuela Ocampo

Richard Curwood Peterson

Catharina Lemckert Tedder

David W Chiasson

Thomas Ottmann

Warren Welborn Mcalpine

Michael Sauer

Joseph Todd Cody

Ruchi Sarda Tandon

Ching-Kee Chien

Randall Dwaine Tuttle

Martyn N Easton

Donald Kennedy Hall

Yangbin Chen

Keith H Lail

Brian S Witz

Todd Ray Rhyne

Kenneth D Temple

John Arthur Rowe

Kenneth F Dunn, Jr

Riley S Freeland

George Ndayizeye

Gilbert D Tugman

Michael S Fedoroff

Peter William Loomis

Kenneth A Chauvin

Edward H Hudson

Randall Tuttle

Catharina L Tedder

James Arthur Iii Register

William Welch Mccollough

Jr Kenneth Darrell Temple

Julien Latelle Greenwood

Julian Latelle Greenwood

An optical fiber cable including a central strength member, a first plurality of tight-buffered ribbon stacks, a binder film, and a cable sheath. The central strength member extends along a longitudinal axis of the optical fiber cable. The tight-buffered ribbon stacks are SZ-stranded around the central strength member. An interstitial space is provided between adjacent tight-buffered ribbon stacks. A binder film continuously and contiguously surrounds the first plurality of tight-buffered ribbon stacks along the longitudinal axis. The binder film includes first portions and at least one second portion. Each of the at least one second portion of the binder film extends into one of the interstitial spaces of the first plurality of tight-buffered ribbon stacks. The cable sheath continuously and contiguously surrounds the binder film along the longitudinal axis, and the cable sheath is coupled to the first portions of the binder film.

SZ stranded tight-buffered ribbon stacks with binder film

An optical fiber cable includes a jacket and a plurality of stranded core subunits, each core subunit comprising a flexible sheath and a plurality of ribbons arranged in a ribbon group, wherein each ribbon of the plurality of ribbons comprises a plurality of connected fibers such that 50-70% of the cross-sectional area inside the sheath is occupied by the connected fibers. The flexible sheath may be an extruded PVC material that conforms to the shape of the ribbon stack and keeps all of the ribbons acting as a unitary body during bending.

High fiber density ribbon cable

An optical cable is provided. The optical cable includes an outer cable body jacket and a plurality of optical fiber subunits. The optical fibers within each subunit are stranded relative to each other and are located within a thin subunit jacket. A plurality of unstranded optical fiber subunits are located within the cable jacket.

Optical fiber cable with parallel ribbon subunits

A fiber optic cable includes a stranded ribbon stack, a sheath extruded around the stranded ribbon stack to form a subunit, and an extruded foam layer, wherein the foam layer has a minimum inner diameter that is less than or equal to a maximum stack diagonal dimension of the stranded ribbon stack.

High density fiber optic ribbon cable

A fiber optic cable includes a tube, a stack of fiber optic ribbons twisting along a lengthwise axis through the tube, a support, and water-blocking tape positioned at least partially around the stack, between the stack and the tube. The support and water-blocking tape provide an elevated portion of the water-blocking tape that is raised. As the stack twists along the lengthwise axis of the tube, corners of the stack interface with the elevated portion to provide intermittent frictional coupling between the stack and the tube.

Coupling system for fiber optic cable using raised tape

An armored cable includes a core and an armor surrounding the core. The armor includes at least one armor access feature formed in the armor to weaken the armor at the access feature. A jacket surrounds the armor and the jacket includes a primary portion of a first extruded polymeric material and at least one discontinuity of a second extruded polymeric material in the primary portion, the discontinuity extending along a length of the cable, and the first material being different from the second material, wherein the bond between the discontinuity and the primary portion allows the jacket to be separated at the discontinuity to provide access to the core, and the at least one armor access feature and the at least one discontinuity are arranged proximate to each other to allow access to the core.

Two piece armored optical cables

A highly packed, low bend loss optical cable is provided. The cable includes an outer cable jacket and a plurality of buffer tubes surrounded by the cable jacket. Each buffer tube includes an inner surface defining a channel having a diameter, D, and an outer surface facing an inner surface of the cable jacket. The cable includes a plural number, N, of optical fibers, located within the channel of each buffer tube and surrounded by the inner surface of the buffer tube. Each optical fiber has an outer diameter, D. The N optical fibers are densely packed within each buffer tube such that a diameter ratio parameter, &#x3a9;, is defined as the ratio D/D, and is 2.25+0.143(N)&#x2264;&#x3a9;&#x2264;1.14+0.313(N).

High fiber density, low bend loss optical fiber cable

A vibration sensing optical fiber cable is provided. The cable includes at least one optical fiber embedded in the cable jacket such that vibrations from the environment are transmitted into the cable jacket to the optical fiber. The cable is configured in a variety of ways, including through spatial arrangement of the sensing fibers, through acoustic impedance matched materials, through internal vibration reflecting structures, and/or through acoustic lens features to enhance sensitivity of the cable for vibration detection/monitoring.

Optical sensing cable with acoustic lensing or reflecting features

A fiber optic cable includes an optical fiber, strength components disposed on opposite sides of the optical fiber, and a polymeric cable jacket. The optical fiber includes a glass core, a glass cladding, and a polymer coating. The cable jacket surrounds the optical fiber and the strength components. Further, the cable jacket is tightly drawn onto the optical fiber, where excess fiber length of the optical fiber is such that positive strain is present in the optical fiber at room temperature (25&#xb0; C.).

Fiber optic cables and assemblies for fiber toward the subscriber applications

Strain sensing optical cable with acoustic impedance matched layers

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