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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 1986
Filed:
Nov. 28, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Standard Telephones & Cables Public Ltd. Co., London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B / ; G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
65-42 ; 350 9615 ;
Abstract
A method of making a single mode optical fibre directional coupler in which a pair of fibres (30,31) in side-by-side contact is subjected to a succession of drawing operations produced by traversing the fibres longitudinally through a flame (34) while stretching them between a pair of carriages (32,33) driven at slightly different speeds.