Corning Incorporated

Corning Optical Communications LLC

Avanex Corporation

Eric John Mozdy

Warren Welborn McAlpine

Julian Latelle Greenwood, Iii

Michael John Gimblet

Jason Clay Lail

Po Ki Yuen

Bradley Jerome Blazer

Anping Liu

Norman Henry Fontaine

Xin Chen

Timothy Leonard Hunt

Dana Craig Bookbinder

David Alan Seddon

Prantik Mazumder

Mark Alejandro Quesada

Joel P Carberry

Adra Smith Baca

Barada Kanta Nayak

Stephen Joseph Caracci

Jason Edward Hurley

Joel Laine Parker

Charles Frederick Laing

Jody Paul Markley

Michael Anthony Lockee

Ming-Jun Li

Jacques Gollier

Nicholas Francis Borrelli

George Halsey Beall

Daniel Aloysius Nolan

Garrett Andrew Piech

Daniel Warren Hawtof

Qi Wu

Linda Ruth Pinckney

Kevin Wallace Bennett

Ann MeeJin Ferrie

Ye Fang

William Allen Wood

V Srikant

Anthony Glenn Frutos

Sergey Yurevich Ten

Joseph Edward McCarthy

Darren Andrew Stainer

Mircea Despa

Hui Su

Mark D Salik

Nicol Alexander Heron

Leigh Rooker Josey

Chuan-Che Wang

Frederic J-y Quan

Rachel S Mozdy

Jeffery Alan Clampitt

Jorge Roberto Serrano

Joseph Doull Thaler

David P Machewirth

Iii Julian Latelle Greenwood

Joseph D Thaler

Nicol A Heron

An optical communication cable includes a cable jacket formed from a first material, a plurality of core elements located within the cable jacket, and an armor layer surrounding the plurality of core elements within the cable jacket, wherein the armor layer is a multi-piece layer having a first armor segment extending a portion of the distance around the plurality of core elements and a second armor segment extending a portion of the distance around the plurality of core elements, wherein a first lateral edge of the first armor segment is adjacent a first lateral edge of the second armor segment and a second lateral edge of the first armor segment is adjacent a second lateral edge of the second armor segment such that the combination of the first armor segment and the second armor segment completely surround the plurality of core elements.

Optical fiber cable with reinforcement

A system and method for marking a moving surface of a fiber optic cable is provided. The system includes a supply of the fiber optic cable, a laser generating device configured to generate a laser beam that forms markings by interacting with the material of the moving surface of the fiber optic cable. The system includes a movement device moving the fiber optic cable through the system at a speed of at least 50 m per minute. The system includes a laser directing device located in the path of the laser beam and configured to change the path of the laser beam to direct the laser beam to a plurality of discrete locations on the moving surface to form a series of marks on the moving surface. The moving surface includes a plurality of tracking indicia to allow the position of the moving surface to be determined.

Marking system for an optical cable component

A fiber optic cable includes core elements wound in a pattern of stranding, the core elements comprising tubes surrounding optical fibers. The fiber optic cable further includes an binder film surrounding the stranded core elements. The binder film is continuous peripherally around the core elements, forming a continuous closed loop when viewed in cross-section, and continuous lengthwise along a length of the cable that is at least a meter. Further, the binder film is in radial tension and opposes outwardly transverse deflection of the core elements.

Binder film system

A fiber optic cable includes a core, armor surrounding the core, and a jacket surrounding the armor. The core includes tubes, each tube having a passage defined therein, optical fibers positioned in the passages, and a binder sleeve defining an exterior of the core. Portions of the binder sleeve are directly bonded to the armor, while other portions are not. Spacing between the armor and the core, as well as the bond between the armor and binder sleeve, facilitate tubing-off of an end section of the cable to include removal of the binder sleeve.

Fiber optic cable structured to facilitate accessing an end thereof

System and method for marking optical component at high speed

An optical communication cable includes a cable body, a plurality of core elements located within the cable body, a reinforcement layer surrounding the plurality of core elements within the cable body, and a film surrounding the plurality of core elements. At least one of the plurality of core elements includes an elongate optical transmission element. The film provides an inwardly directed force onto the core elements, and a surface of the film is bonded to the reinforcement layer.

A fiber optic cable includes a jacket forming a cavity therein, the jacket having an indentation on the exterior thereof that forms a ridge extending into the cavity along the length of the jacket; and a stack of fiber optic ribbons located in the cavity, each ribbon having a plurality of optical fibers arranged side-by-side with one another and coupled to one another in a common matrix, wherein corners of the ribbon stack pass by the ridge at intermittent locations along the length of the jacket, and wherein interaction between the ridge and the ribbon stack facilitates coupling of the ribbon stack to the jacket.

Coupling system for a fiber optic cable

A fiber optic cable includes a jacket forming a cavity therein, a stack of fiber optic ribbons located in the cavity, and a strength member embedded in the jacket. The jacket forms a ridge extending into the cavity lengthwise along the fiber optic cable. The ribbon stack is spiraled through the cavity such that corners of the ribbon stack pass by the ridge at intermittent locations along the length of the cable, where interactions between the ridge and the corners of the ribbon stack facilitate coupling of the ribbon stack to the jacket.

A porous soot sheet is formed using a roll-to-roll glass soot deposition and sintering process. The soot sheet formation involves depositing glass soot particles on a deposition surface to form a supported soot layer, removing the soot layer from the deposition surface to form a soot sheet, and heating a portion of the soot sheet to locally-sinter the glass soot particles and form a porous soot part having a sintered peripheral edge.

Locally-sintered porous soot parts and methods of forming

A method of forming an optical communication cable is provided. The cable includes a core element located in a cable jacket. The core element includes a buffer tube having an outer surface, an inner surface and a channel defined by the inner surface of the first tube. The core element includes an optical fiber located within the channel of the buffer tube and a color layer formed from a surface-deposited colorant material applied to the outer surface of the buffer tube.

Optical fiber cable with core element having surface-deposited color layer

A method for producing an optical fiber is provided. The method includes the steps of drawing an optical fiber from a heated glass source in a furnace and introducing index perturbations to the optical fiber via a plurality of perturbation sources arranged at a plurality of different azimuthal locations. The index perturbations are introduced synchronously at different locations along the axial length of the fiber by the plurality of perturbation sources in a generally helical pattern on the outside surface of the fiber in one embodiment. According to another embodiment, the index perturbations are introduced by the plurality of perturbation sources at different frequencies.

Method for producing optical fiber having controlled perturbations

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