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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2001
Stuart R. Melton, Hickory, NC (US);
Scott M. Torrey, Hickory, NC (US);
Corning Cable Systems LLC, Hickory, NC (US);
Abstract
A single-mode optical fiber includes a core, a cladding, and a coating. The cladding of the single-mode optical fiber has an outer diameter of about 125.0 &mgr;m±0.3 &mgr;m. A plurality of the single-mode optical fibers may be associated with at least one flexible polymeric material forming an fiber optic assembly and a method of manufacturing the same. The fiber optic assembly, for example, may be a ribbon, a cable, a pigtail, an optical circuit, or a portion of a ribbon stack. Additionally, the optical fiber may include other suitable geometric properties and/or characteristics, such as, a core to cladding concentricity of about 0.2 &mgr;m or less and/or a mode-field diameter of about 9.2 &mgr;m±0.3 &mgr;m at a source wavelength of 1310 nm.