Mitsubishi Rayon Company, Limited

Yukio Harada

Youjirou Watanabe

Mikio Sera

An optical fiber bundle with a assembling tool, which comprises a plurality of optical fibers 3 fusion-bonded and fixed, at one end or both ends thereof, in a hollow part of the assembling tool with substantially no space left therein, wherein at least a portion of said assembling tool 1 in contact with said optical fibers 3 is formed of a thermoplastic resin and provided that Tp represents the heat transformation temperature of said thermoplastic resin and Tc represents the heat transformation temperature of the core material of said optical fibers 3, the following equation (1):

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Yukio Harada