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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2000
Jeffery A. DeMeritt, Painted Post, NY (US);
Zagorka D. Gaeta, Ithaca, NY (US);
Peter G. Wigley, Corning, NY (US);
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of assembling an optical system includes the steps of: (i) selecting, from a plurality of optical fibers characterized by a common nominal cut-off wavelength &lgr; and an actual cut-off wavelength &lgr; such that the cut-off wavelength &lgr; of each one of this plurality of fibers is the same as the nominal cut-off wavelength &lgr; or differs slightly from the nominal cut-off wavelength due to manufacturing tolerances, only fibers with &lgr; >&lgr; , where &lgr; is a predetermined minimum acceptable cut-off wavelength of the selected fibers; and (ii) bending at least one section of at least one of these selected fibers such that this bent section has a bend radius R, where 12 mm<R<18 mm.