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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2005
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2002
Thomas Mclean, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
John Phillip Rahn, West Hills, CA (US);
Manfred Schiruska, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Thomas McLean, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
John Phillip Rahn, West Hills, CA (US);
Manfred Schiruska, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Northrop Grumman Corporation, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus in one example comprises a buffer layer located on a face that serves as a primary support for an optical fiber winding along a first general direction. The face is coupled with a body that serves as a primary support for the optical fiber winding along a second general direction. The optical fiber winding comprises an optical fiber wound about the body. The buffer layer serves to promote a decrease of one or more strain gradients among a plurality of portions of the optical fiber winding.