Alcatel

Alcatel Cable

Alcatel Cable France

Patrick Bourghelle

Pierre Gaillard

David John Benzel

Christopher W McNutt

Christopher Mc Nutt

A fiber optic cable includes an end section in the form of a ribbon and a central section in which the sheath has a substantially tubular form. Applications include fiber optic cable connectors and spare lengths of fiber optic cable for jointing cassettes.

Fiber optic cable

An optical fiber multi-ribbon including at least two initial optical fiber ribbons having individual first sheaths for assembling the fibers of each ribbon together side by side and in a common plane. The initial optical fiber ribbons are disposed side by side and in a common plane and a common exterior second sheath surrounds the initial ribbons. The individual first sheaths of the initial ribbons and the common exterior second sheath are made from the same resin. This resin is advantageously relatively hard. Applications include high-density optical telecommunication cables.

Optical fiber multi-ribbon

The invention relates to apparatus for curing an object by using UV radiation, the object being made, at least in part, of a material that is cross-linkable under UV radiation, said apparatus including: UV radiation sources (2); a tube (3) made of a material that is permeable to UV radiation, the tube being surrounded by the UV radiation sources (2), and being designed to receive at least a portion of the object to be cured; and gas feed means for generating a gas flow (15) through the tube (3) along a general flow axis (9). According to the invention, the apparatus further includes channeling means (4) for causing a portion (16) of the gas flow (15) to constitute a gas screen sweeping the inside sidewall (5) of the tube (3).

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Saint Denis, France

Patrick Bourghelle