Method for splicing a bend-optimized optical fiber
AssigneeAFL Telecommunications LLC
InventorWenxin Zheng
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Abstract
A method of splicing a bend-optimized optical fiber in which a mesh of nanometer-scale pockets is formed in the cladding of the fiber is provided. The method may include cleaving the fiber; heating a section of the fiber at a distance from an end of the fiber; allowing the fiber to cool; transmitting light through the fiber; and splicing the fiber by analyzing an image of the fiber. Alternatively, the method may include heating a section of the fiber; allowing the fiber to cool; cleaving the fiber through the section of the fiber that was heated; transmitting light through the fiber; and splicing the fiber by analyzing an image of the fiber.
Claims7
A method of splicing a bend-optimized optical fiber having a cladding with a mesh of nanometer-scale pockets, the method comprising:
- cleaving the bend-optimized optical fiber;
- heating a section of the bend-optimized optical fiber at a distance from an end of the bend-optimized optical fiber until the mesh of nanometer-scale pockets in the cladding collapses;
- allowing the bend-optimized optical fiber to cool;
- transmitting light through the bend-optimized optical fiber;
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- splicing the bend-optimized optical fiber by analyzing an image of the bend-optimized optical fiber.
A method of splicing a bend-optimized optical fiber having a cladding with a mesh of nanometer-scale pockets, the method comprising:
- heating a section of the bend-optimized optical fiber until the mesh of nanometer-scale pockets in the cladding collapses;
- allowing the bend-optimized optical fiber to cool;
- cleaving the bend-optimized optical fiber through the section of the bend-optimized optical fiber that was heated;
- transmitting light through the bend-optimized optical fiber;
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- splicing the bend-optimized optical fiber by analyzing an image of the bend-optimized optical fiber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.