At+t Corp.

American Telephone and Telegraph, Co.

At&t Technologies and At&t Bell Laboratories

Friedrich Zwickel

Neal Henry Thorsten

Stanley Kaufman

Robert W Berry

An optical wave guide coupler with an integral signal modifying element that passively compensates for temperature variations by automatically tilting the element and thereby changing its operating characteristics with changes in temperature. The element is also rotatably, yet firmly, supported by the coupler and is retained at a predetermined angle relative to the axis of the coupler so that the operating characteristics of the element may be selectively varied by rotation of the element holder of the coupler.

Passive temperature-compensated optical wave guide coupler

Disclosed is a method and resulting package which provide an optical fiber seal. One or more fibers are fed through a housing utilizing an apertured insert with a fiber located in each aperture. The housing preferably includes adjacent openings having unequal diameters. A sealing material, such as epoxy is deposited in the larger opening, and/or in the apertures, and the insert is pushed into that opening. The sealing material is thereby forced through the small opening and also into the apertures of the insert to seal the fibers.

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Whitehall, PA, United States of America

Friedrich Zwickel