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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 1995
Filed:
Dec. 24, 1992
Yasuo Matsumura, Yokohama, JP;
Shogo Miyata, Yokohama, JP;
Kanji Kusada, Yokosuka, JP;
Kaede Terauchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to provide a drawn optical transmission medium having excellent heat resistance and a continuous refractive index distribution in a good productivity at a low cost, and the disadvantages in a conventional synthetic resin optical transmission medium can be eliminated, which method is characterized by a step of crosslinking a polymer having a continuous refractive index gradient distributed from the peripheral portion to the central portion in its cross section and having a crosslinkable functional groups, after the step of heating and drawing.