Corning Incorporated

Richard Edward Rebis

Dana Craig Bookbinder

Ming-Jun Li

Scott Robertson Bickham

Stephan Lvovich Logunov

Lewis Kirk Klingensmith

Michael B Cain

Thomas Richard Chapman

Mark Alan McDermott

Martin Hempstead

Lisa Larae Hepburn

Pamela A Hajcak

Methods are disclosed herein for joining a first optical fiber and a second optical fiber, wherein at least one of the first and second optical fibers has an annular glass region, such as a cladding, which is provided with a plurality of holes. The methods are well suited for joining a first microstructured optical fiber, such as a first optical fiber having a plurality of holes having a maximum cross-sectional diameter on the order of 7 microns or less, to another second optical fiber. The second optical fiber could be another microstructured optical fiber or a non-microstructured optical fiber.

Method of splicing an optical fiber with holes in the cladding

A low splice loss optical fiber transmission line is disclosed which has a first optical fiber portion and a second optical fiber portion, the first and second optical fiber portions having different mode field diameters. The optical fiber transmission line is advantageously loss-flattened. Additionally, a method of making an optical fiber transmission line is disclosed such that the loss due to the spliced connection is reduced during the fabrication of the optical transmission line.

Optical transmission line and method of manufacture

A bridge fiber and a method of connecting two other dissimilar optical waveguide fibers is presented. The bridge fiber may be utilized to connect positive dispersion fibers or step index single mode fibers to compensative fibers, such as dispersion compensation fibers or dispersion-slope compensation fibers.

Method of connecting optical fibers, an optical fiber therefor, and an optical fiber span therefrom

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Corning, NY, United States of America

Richard Edward Rebis