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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2016
Ofs Fite, Llc, Norcross, GA (US);
Jeffrey W Nicholson, Warren, NJ (US);
OFS FITEL, LLC, Norcross, GA (US);
Abstract
A length of a coating on an optical fiber is cut and stripped from an end of the fiber by supporting the fiber in confronting relation to a cutting edge on one or more blades. Each blade is positioned so that its cutting edge cuts into the coating without delaminating the coating from an underlying fiber cladding by providing the cutting edge with sufficient sharpness. The coating is sliced around the circumference of the fiber by either rotating the fiber about its axis so that the cutting edge of each blade slices the coating around a corresponding portion of the circumference of the fiber, or rotating the cutting edge of each blade about the fiber axis so that the cutting edge slices the coating around a corresponding portion of the circumference of the fiber. A cut length of the coating is then removed from the end of the fiber.