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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2015
Ofs Fitel, Llc, Norcross, GA (US);
David Burgess, Springfield, MA (US);
Adam Hokansson, Granby, CT (US);
Debra A Simoff, Simsbury, CT (US);
Andrei A Stolov, Simsbury, CT (US);
Jacob Wrubel, Storrs Mansfield, CT (US);
OFS FITEL, LLC, Norcross, GA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a composition for coating an optical fiber comprising a free radically curable acrylate and/or a methacrylate functionalized oligomer having a density of less than 1.0 g/cm; where the acrylate and/or the methacrylate functionalized oligomer has a functionality of 1 or more; a photoinitiator; and optionally a free radically curable acrylate and/or methacrylate diluent monomer that has a density of less than 1.0 g/cm; where the coating composition is disposed and cured on an optical fiber; where the density of the cured coating is less than 1.0 g/cm; and where the average functionality of the composition is greater than one.