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US 12,195,380 B2Granted
Preform assembly for drawing multicore or holey optical fibre and method of manufacturing thereof
AssigneeSterlite Technologies Limited
InventorsAnand Pandey, Ranjith Balakrishnan, Srinivas Reddy, Apeksha Malviya
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Abstract
The present invention discloses a preform assembly and a method for drawing a multicore optical fibre and a holey fibre. Particularly, the preform assembly includes a hollow cylindrical tube, a plurality of discs stacked inside the hollow cylindrical tube and a plurality of core rods inserted in a plurality of through holes in each of the plurality of discs.
Claims6
A preform assembly for drawing an optical fibre comprising:
- a hollow cylindrical tube;
- a plurality of discs stacked inside the hollow cylindrical tube (106), and each of the plurality of discs has a plurality of through holes;
- wherein at least one of the plurality of discs has an unequal number of through holes compared to another one of the plurality of discs;
- and
- a plurality of core rods inserted in the plurality of through holes of each of the plurality of discs.
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