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US 6,487,346 B2Granted
Optical cable
AssigneeAlcatel
InventorKlaus Nothofer
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Abstract
Described is an optical cable or cable element with a plurality of optical waveguide elements which are stranded together and each consist of several optical waveguides, collected into a bundle, and of a plastic covering surrounding the bundle with a maximum free space of 0.1 mm, and of a non-compressible filling compound filling the intermediate spaces between the optical waveguides, and with a layer of longitudinally aligned glass or plastic fibers surrounding the optical waveguide elements and with an extruded outer jacket of a polymer, the outer jacket compressing the layer radially.
Claims9
An optical cable or cable element comprising:
- a plurality of optical waveguide elements which are stranded together, the optical waveguide elements comprising several optical waveguides collected into a bundle, a plastic covering surrounding the bundle with a maximum free space of 0.1 mm, and an incompressible filling compound filling the intermediate spaces between the optical waveguides;
- a protection layer comprising longitudinally aligned glass or plastic fibers surrounding the optical waveguide elements;
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- an extruded outer jacket of a polymer compressing the layer radially.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.