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US 9,429,707 B2Granted
Making fiber axicon tapers for fusion splicers
AssigneeAFL Telecommunications LLC
InventorWenxin Zheng
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing a fiber axicon taper includes, aligning a fiber, splicing the fiber, pulling the fiber, necking the fiber, breaking the fiber, and rounding the edges of the fiber axicon taper.
Claims1
A method of manufacturing a fiber axicon taper, the method comprising:
- pulling a fiber to create a tapered neck;
- feeding the tapered neck to create a ball lens on a first side of the tapered neck;
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- heating a tip of the fiber on a second side of the tapered neck with heat radiating from the ball lens, thereby forming an axicon taper on the second side of the tapered neck.
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