Armored fiber optic cables
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
InventorGerald E. Holmberg
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Abstract
An armored fiber optic cable is disclosed having both fiber optics and ar wires located outside the cable core in position where the fiber optics experience low strain when the cable is under stress. In one embodiment, metal armor wires and optical fibers embedded in metal tubes are arrayed in one or more layers about and outside the cable core. In another embodiment, KEVLAR armor wires and optical fibers embedded within a hard composite shell are arrayed in one or more layers about and outside the cable core, and a layer of KEVLAR armor is provided surrounding the one or more layers. In each of the embodiments the strains that the fiber optics experience due to core stresses and due to core residual strain is materially reduced over the heretofore known armored fiber optic cables.
Claims13
A low-strain armored fiber optic cable, comprising:
- a core having an interior;
- a jacket concentric with the core defining an annular region between the jacket and core that is radially spaced from and outside the interior of the core;
- a plurality of armor wires about the core in the annular region and defining at least one radially located layer circumferentially concentric with the spaced from said interior of the core;
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- a plurality of armored fiber optic cables about the core in the annular region interspaced with the armor wires in at least one of each said at least one radially located layer;
- said armor wires being of a synthetic material and wherein said armored fiber optic cables being fiber optic cables embedded within a composite material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.