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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2011
Mark R. Fernald, Enfield, CT (US);
Trevor W. Macdougall, Simsbury, CT (US);
Martin A. Putnam, Cheshire, CT (US);
Rebecca S. Bryant, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Christopher J. Wright, Bend, OR (US);
Michael Arcand, Portland, CT (US);
Christopher T. Chipman, Scotland, CT (US);
Mark R. Fernald, Enfield, CT (US);
Trevor W. MacDougall, Simsbury, CT (US);
Martin A. Putnam, Cheshire, CT (US);
Rebecca S. Bryant, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Christopher J. Wright, Bend, OR (US);
Michael Arcand, Portland, CT (US);
Christopher T. Chipman, Scotland, CT (US);
Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Techniques and systems suitable for performing low-loss fusion splicing of optical waveguide sections are provided. According to some embodiments, multiple laser beams (from one or more laser) may be utilized to uniformly heat a splice region including portions of the optical waveguide sections to be spliced, which may have different cross-sectional dimensions. According to some embodiments, the relative distance of the optical waveguide sections and/or the power of the multiple laser beams may be varied during splicing operations.