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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 02, 1994
Michael Douglas Kinard, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Andrew John Panuska, Buford, GA (US);
Parbhubhai Dahyabhai Patel, Dunwoody, GA (US);
Walter Joseph Paucke, Tucker, GA (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A family of low optical fiber count cables which contains either optical fiber bundles, buffered fibers, or ribbon fibers housed in a core tube whose inner diameter is optimized for a cable containing two buffered fibers. The unoccupied volume of the core tube is filled with a water blocking material and the exterior surface of the core tube is coated with a hydrophilic material applied directly thereto. The core tube is encased in a dielectric jacket or in a metallic jacket. The cables thus formed can be used in a composite cable which includes an electrically conducting cable, and two abutting cables are incased in an outer sheath or jacket, forming a FIG. 8 configuration.