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公开(公告)号:US10961145B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-30
申请号:US15710074
申请日:2017-09-20
Applicant: Corning Incorporated
Inventor: Steven Akin Dunwoody , Robert Clark Moore , Pushkar Tandon
IPC: C03B37/025 , C03B37/027 , C03B37/029
Abstract: Optical fibers having low fictive temperature and methods of making such fibers are described. Management of the cooling rate of an optical fiber during fiber draw permits control over the fictive temperature of the fiber. Non-monotonic cooling rates are shown to promote reductions in fiber fictive temperature. The non-monotonic cooling includes slower cooling rates in upstream portions of the process pathway and faster cooling rates in downstream portions of the process pathway. Reduction in fiber fictive temperature is achieved by controlling the ambient temperature of the fiber to slow the cooling rate of the fiber in upstream portions of the process pathway that correspond to the fiber temperature regime in which the fiber viscosity is sufficiently low to permit efficient structural relaxation. Increases in cooling rate in downstream portions of the process pathway permit adjustment of fiber temperature as needed to meet entrance temperature requirements of downstream processing units. Lower fiber fictive temperature and lower fiber attenuation are achieved at faster draw speeds through non-monotonic cooling of fiber temperature.
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公开(公告)号:US20200225404A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-16
申请号:US16716912
申请日:2019-12-17
Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED
Inventor: Scott Robertson Bickham , Ming-Jun Li , Pushkar Tandon , Ruchi Tandon
IPC: G02B6/028 , G02B6/02 , G02B6/036 , C03C25/1065 , C03C25/50 , C03C25/285 , C03C25/326 , C03C13/04 , C09D175/16
Abstract: The present disclosure provides optical fibers with an impact-resistant coating system. The fibers feature low attenuation. The coating system includes a primary coating and a secondary coating. The primary coating and secondary coating have reduced thickness to provide low-diameter fibers without sacrificing protection. The primary coating has high tear strength and is resistant to damage caused by mechanical force. The secondary coating has high puncture resistance. The outer diameter of the optical fiber is less than or equal to 190 μm.
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公开(公告)号:US10696580B2
公开(公告)日:2020-06-30
申请号:US16189096
申请日:2018-11-13
Applicant: Corning Incorporated
Inventor: Dana Craig Bookbinder , Ming-Jun Li , Bruce Warren Reding , Pushkar Tandon
IPC: C03B37/029 , C03B37/027
Abstract: An optical fiber with low fictive temperature along with a system and method for making the optical fiber are provided. The system includes a reheating stage that heats the fiber along the process pathway to a temperature sufficient to lower the fictive temperature of the fiber by relaxing the glass structure and/or driving the glass toward a more nearly equilibrium state. The fiber is drawn from a preform, conveyed along a process pathway, cooled and subsequently reheated to increase the time of exposure of the fiber to temperatures conducive to lowering the fictive temperature of the fiber. The process pathway may include multiple reheating stages as well as one or more fiber-turning devices.
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公开(公告)号:US20200150336A1
公开(公告)日:2020-05-14
申请号:US16741993
申请日:2020-01-14
Applicant: Corning Incorporated
Inventor: Dana Craig Bookbinder , Ming-Jun Li , Snigdharaj Kumar Mishra , Pushkar Tandon
Abstract: An optical fiber includes (i) a chlorine doped silica based core having a core alpha (Coreα)≥4, a radius r1, and a maximum refractive index delta Δ1max % and (ii) a cladding surrounding the core. The cladding surrounding the core includes a) a first inner cladding region adjacent to and in contact with the core and having a refractive index delta Δ2, a radius r2, and a minimum refractive index delta Δ2min such that Δ2min
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公开(公告)号:US20190331850A1
公开(公告)日:2019-10-31
申请号:US16391859
申请日:2019-04-23
Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED
Inventor: Kevin Wallace Bennett , Scott Robertson Bickham , Pushkar Tandon , Ruchi Tandon , Bryan William Wakefield
Abstract: An optical fiber comprising: a core having an outer radius ri; a cladding having an outer radius r4 8 microns, the primary coating having in situ modulus EP of 0.35 MPa or less and a spring constant χP 10 microns and r6≤85 microns. The fiber has a mode field diameter MFD greater than 8.2 microns at 1310 nm; a cutoff wavelength of less than 1310 nm; and a bend loss at a wavelength of 1550 nm, when wrapped around a mandrel having a diameter of 10 mm, of less than 1.0 dB/turn.
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公开(公告)号:US10444427B2
公开(公告)日:2019-10-15
申请号:US15660024
申请日:2017-07-26
Applicant: Corning Incorporated
Inventor: Dana Craig Bookbinder , Ming-Jun Li , Snigdharaj Kumar Mishra , Pushkar Tandon
Abstract: Single mode optical fibers with a chlorine doped core and a cladding having a fluorine doped trench region are disclosed. The optical fiber includes a chlorine doped silica core having a core alpha α≥10, a core radius r1 and maximum refractive index delta Δ1max % and a Cl concentration≥0.9 wt %. The optical fiber also has a cladding surrounding the core, the cladding having an inner and an outer cladding. The inner cladding has first and second cladding regions. The optical fiber has mode field diameter at 1310 nm of larger than 9 microns, a cable cutoff wavelength of ≤1260 nm, a zero dispersion wavelength λ0, where 1300 nm≤λ0≤1324 nm, and bend loss at 1550 nm for a 20 mm mandrel of less than 0.5 dB/turn.
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公开(公告)号:US10429579B2
公开(公告)日:2019-10-01
申请号:US15444687
申请日:2017-02-28
Applicant: Corning Incorporated
Inventor: George Edward Berkey , Dana Craig Bookbinder , Ming-Jun Li , Pushkar Tandon
IPC: G02B6/02 , G02B6/036 , C03B37/018 , C03B37/014 , C03C13/04 , C03B37/012 , C03C25/106
Abstract: An optical fiber having a core comprising silica and greater than 1.5 wt % chlorine and less than 0.5 wt % F, said core having a refractive index Δ1MAX, and a inner cladding region having refractive index Δ2MIN surrounding the core, where Δ1MAX>Δ2MIN.
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公开(公告)号:US20190249034A1
公开(公告)日:2019-08-15
申请号:US16266235
申请日:2019-02-04
Applicant: Corning Incorporated
Inventor: Dana Craig Bookbinder , Yangbin Chen , Pushkar Tandon , Ruchi Tandon , Bin Yang
IPC: C09D175/16 , C08G18/75 , C08G18/48 , C08G18/67 , C08G18/12 , C08G18/24 , C09D5/00 , G02B6/02 , C03C25/106 , C03C25/326 , C03B37/025
CPC classification number: C09D175/16 , C03B37/025 , C03B2205/42 , C03C25/106 , C03C25/1065 , C03C25/326 , C08F222/1006 , C08F290/067 , C08G18/12 , C08G18/246 , C08G18/4825 , C08G18/672 , C08G18/6755 , C08G18/758 , C08G18/8175 , C09D4/06 , C09D5/002 , G02B1/04 , G02B6/02395 , C08F2222/1086 , C08F2220/287 , C08F226/06 , C08G18/48
Abstract: The present disclosure provides coating compositions and cured products formed from the coating compositions. The cured products can be formed at high cure speeds from the coating compositions and feature low Young's modulus, high tear strength, and/or high tensile toughness. The cured products can be used as primary coatings for optical fibers. The primary coatings provide good microbending performance and are resistant to defect formation during fiber coating processing and handling operations. The coating compositions include an oligomer, an alkoxylated monofunctional acrylate monomer, and preferably, an N-vinyl amide compound.
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公开(公告)号:US20190162896A1
公开(公告)日:2019-05-30
申请号:US16193866
申请日:2018-11-16
Applicant: Corning Incorporated
Inventor: Scott Robertson Bickham , Dana Craig Bookbinder , Ming-Jun Li , Snigdharaj Kumar Mishra , Pushkar Tandon
CPC classification number: G02B6/0281 , G02B6/02009 , G02B6/02014 , G02B6/02214 , G02B6/03627
Abstract: A single mode optical fiber, comprising: (i) a silica based core having a graded refractive index profile with an alpha of less than 5, a relative refractive index Δ1max, and an outer radius r1, wherein 10 microns>r1≥6.5 microns, the core comprising Cl, Ge, or a combination thereof; (ii) a first cladding region in contact with and surrounding the core, the first cladding region having a relative refractive index Δ2min, an inner radius r1, and an outer radius r2, wherein r2 than 9 microns, a zero dispersion wavelength
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公开(公告)号:US20190092678A1
公开(公告)日:2019-03-28
申请号:US16189096
申请日:2018-11-13
Applicant: Corning Incorporated
Inventor: Dana Craig Bookbinder , Ming-Jun Li , Bruce Warren Reding , Pushkar Tandon
IPC: C03B37/029 , C03B37/027
CPC classification number: C03B37/029 , C03B37/02727 , C03B2201/02 , C03B2201/06 , C03B2205/55 , C03B2205/56
Abstract: An optical fiber with low fictive temperature along with a system and method for making the optical fiber are provided. The system includes a reheating stage that heats the fiber along the process pathway to a temperature sufficient to lower the fictive temperature of the fiber by relaxing the glass structure and/or driving the glass toward a more nearly equilibrium state. The fiber is drawn from a preform, conveyed along a process pathway, cooled and subsequently reheated to increase the time of exposure of the fiber to temperatures conducive to lowering the fictive temperature of the fiber. The process pathway may include multiple reheating stages as well as one or more fiber-turning devices.
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