Optical fiber and optical fiber ribbon
AssigneeSumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
InventorsNoriaki Iwaguchi, Miho Ikegawa
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Abstract
An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber including a core and a cladding, and a coating resin layer for coating the glass fiber; the coating resin layer has a primary resin layer in contact with the glass fiber for coating the glass fiber, and a secondary resin layer for coating the primary resin layer; the primary resin layer includes a cured product of a first resin composition containing a silicone (meth)acrylate and a photopolymerization initiator; the secondary resin layer includes a cured product of a second resin composition containing a urethane (meth)acrylate and a photopolymerization initiator; and the amount of tin contained in the coating resin layer is 150 ppm or less in a mass ratio.
Claims17
An optical fiber comprising:
- a glass fiber comprising a core and a cladding, and a coating resin layer for coating the glass fiber;
- wherein the coating resin layer has a primary resin layer in contact with the glass fiber for coating the glass fiber, and a secondary resin layer for coating the primary resin layer;
- the primary resin layer includes a cured product of a first resin composition containing a silicone (meth)acrylate and a photopolymerization initiator;
- the secondary resin layer includes a cured product of a second resin composition containing a urethane (meth)acrylate and a photopolymerization initiator;
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- an amount of tin contained in the coating resin layer is 150 ppm or less in a mass ratio.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.