Method and spacer for assembling flexible optical waveguide ribbons, and assembled stack of such ribbons
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRoger F. Dangel, Daniel S. Jubin, Tobias P. Lamprecht, Bert Jan Offrein
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Abstract
A method and spacer for assembling flexible optical waveguide ribbons and assembled stack of such ribbons. The method includes the steps of: providing at least two optical waveguide ribbons and a spacer, which includes at least two calibrated spaces; positioning a ribbon stack in the spacer, where the ribbon stack includes the at least two optical waveguide ribbons stacked on top of each other; constraining positioned ribbon stack in one of the calibrated spaces; and fixing constrained ribbon stack in the calibrated spaces.
Claims9
A method for assembling flexible optical waveguide ribbons comprising:
- positioning an optical waveguide ribbon in a receptacle;
- applying an adhesive into said receptacle until an upper surface of said adhesive is located above an upper surface of said optical waveguide, said adhesive filling spaces between said receptacle and said optical waveguide ribbon;
- engaging a portion of a spacer element in said receptacle until a calibrated space is achieved between said portion of said spacer element and said receptacle, wherein said optical waveguide ribbon is constrained and fixed in said calibrated space;
- removing said spacer element;
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- repeating said positioning, said applying, said engaging and said removing to obtain a N+1th optical waveguide ribbon fixed in said receptacle with respect to a Nth optical waveguide ribbon, wherein N is an integer greater than 0.
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