Optical waveguides – Miscellaneous
Reexamination Certificate
2005-06-07
2005-06-07
Font, Frank G. (Department: 2881)
Optical waveguides
Miscellaneous
C385S137000, C385S128000, C356S073100, C134S001000, C083S014000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06904226
ABSTRACT:
A method of preparing a coated optical fiber for coupling to a face of an optical device includes placing the coated fiber so that it extends through a stripping station, a cleaning station and a cleaving station. A stripper at the stripping station is brought into engagement with the fiber and relative motion between the fiber and the stripping station, the cleaning station and the cleaving station is effected lengthwise of the fiber, whereby the coating is stripped from a medial length segment of the fiber as the cleaning device at the cleaning station is activated for cleaning fragments of coating material from the medial length segment of the fiber as the medial length segment passes through the cleaning station and the cleaning device is deactivated and stripping is discontinued. The fiber is positioned with the medial length segment at the cleaving station, the fiber is clamped at a location that is upstream of the cleaving station with respect to the direction from the stripping station to the cleaving station, and the fiber is cleaved within the medial length segment, thereby providing the fiber with a freshly cleaved end region.
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Brokke Christiaan Johannes
Dyer John W.
Hill Warren R.
Kritler David A.
Schildmeyer Frederic Campbell
Font Frank G.
Hughes James P.
Smith-Hill John
Smith-Hill and Bedell
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