Large diameter optical waveguide splice

Details Large diameter optical waveguide splice Large diameter optical waveguide splice

2004-01-12

2011-12-06

Peng, Charlie (Department: 2883)

Optical waveguides

With splice

Fusion splicing

C385S137000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08070369

ABSTRACT:
Techniques and systems suitable for performing low-loss fusion splicing of optical waveguide sections are provided. According to some embodiments, multiple laser beams (from one or more laser) may be utilized to uniformly heat a splice region including portions of the optical waveguide sections to be spliced, which may have different cross-sectional dimensions. According to some embodiments, the relative distance of the optical waveguide sections and/or the power of the multiple laser beams may be varied during splicing operations.

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