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US 2013/0230281 A1Published application
Method of forming fused coupler
AssigneeTyco Electronics Corporation
InventorTerry Patrick Bowen
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Abstract
A method of forming a coupler, the method comprising: (a) heating a portion of an optical fiber having multiple cores and an initial diameter; and (b) applying a tensile force across the portion such that the portion stretches, thereby reducing the initial diameter to a reduced diameter sufficient to cause optical signals propagating in one or more of the multiple cores to leave their respective cores and enter other cores of the fiber.
Claims18
A method of forming a coupler, said method comprising:
- heating a portion of an optical fiber having multiple cores and an initial diameter;
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- applying a tensile force across said portion such that said portion stretches, thereby reducing said initial diameter to a reduced diameter sufficient to cause optical signals propagating in one or more of said multiple cores to leave their respective cores and enter other cores of the fiber.
A fused coupler comprising:
- a multi-core optical fiber having ends of an initial diameter and a tapered portion of a reduced diameter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.