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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2014
Corning Optical Communications Llc, Hickory, NC (US);
Dana Craig Bookbinder, Corning, NY (US);
Edward John Fewkes, Corning, NY (US);
Stephan Lvovich Logunov, Corning, NY (US);
Corning Optical Communications LLC, Hickory, NC (US);
Abstract
An optical fiber cable assembly includes an optical tracer fiber, an optical data transmission fiber, and a cable jacket. The optical tracer fiber defines a tracer scattering profile having a scattering loss of >15 dB/km at a tracer wavelength or wavelength range λthat lies in a visible spectrum. The optical tracer fiber is wound about a longitudinal axis of the optical fiber cable assembly and is either physically coupled to the cable jacket or contained within an inside diameter of the cable jacket. The cable jacket may be engineered to generate light at an optically visible shifted tracer wavelength or wavelength range λ* from visible light at the tracer wavelength or wavelength range λ. The cable jacket may include an optically reflective material such that a portion of dispersed visible light from the optical tracer is reflected by the optically reflective material of the cable jacket.