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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2000
Ronald L. Burt, Painted Post, NY (US);
Joshua J. Dahlman, Painted Post, NY (US);
Tiffanie G. D'Alberto, Corning, NY (US);
James E. McGinnis, Big Flats, NY (US);
Walter L. Morgan, Painted Post, NY (US);
Robert O'Loughlin, Jr., Big Flats, NY (US);
Edward M. Schmidlin, Corning, NY (US);
Michael G. Shultz, Corning, NY (US);
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
A system for writing fiber gratings has a plurality of writing stations, each writing station including a fiber mounting fixture for receiving an optical fiber to be exposed to a beam from a laser. The system includes a data capture module for capturing data generated from the exposure of optical fibers in each of the writing stations, and a steering assembly for directing the laser beam to each of the plurality of writing stations in turn.