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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2015
Corning Optical Communications Llc, Hickory, NC (US);
Jeffrey Dean Danley, Hickory, NC (US);
Robert Bruce Elkins, II, Hickory, NC (US);
Darrin Max Miller, Hickory, NC (US);
Zhaoxu Tian, Hickory, NC (US);
Stephan T Toepper, Hickory, NC (US);
Kipp David Yeakel, Waverly, NY (US);
Corning Optical Communications LLC, Hickory, NC (US);
Abstract
An optical fiber includes a glass fiber, having a cladding and core, surrounded by a polymer coating. Some of the coating is removed by a laser beam so that the optical fiber comprises a first lengthwise portion covered by the coating and a second lengthwise portion where the coating is not present on at least ninety-five (95) percent of an exterior surface of the second lengthwise portion. A microstructure of the polymer coating, adjacent to the second lengthwise portion on the first lengthwise portion, tapers at an angle such that a thickness of the polymer coating decreases toward the second lengthwise portion as a function of proximity to the second lengthwise portion. The optical fiber may also be optionally cleaved with the laser beam.