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US 4,783,140 AGranted
Elastomeric optical waveguide with core and cladding imparted with elasticity by irradiation of a radioactive ray
AssigneeSumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
InventorsYoshitaka Osawa, Takafumi Uemiya, Shin-ichiro Niwa, Akira Nishimura, Yutaka Shibata
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Abstract
An elastomeric optical waveguide comprising a core and a cladding surrounding the core in which at least the core comprises an elastomer to which elasticity is imparted by irradiation of a radioactive ray, which has low attenuation of light transmission.
Claims7
An elastomeric optical waveguide comprising a core and a cladding surrounding the core in which at least the core comprising an elastomer to which elasticity is imparted by irradiation of a radioactive ray, wherein the elastomer contains no additive for enhancing or imparting elasticity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.