Anthony John

US Patent:

57684600, Jun 16, 1998

Filed:

Oct 3, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/538311

Inventors:

Anthony Frederick John Levi - Los Angeles CA
Markus A. Giebel - Hickory NC
Donald L. Knasel - Hickory NC
Greg A. Lochkovic - Newton NC

Assignee:

Siecor Corporation - Hickory NC

International Classification:

G02B 644

US Classification:

385114

Abstract:

An optical fiber ribbon comprising a plurality of optical fibers secured or embedded substantially parallel to one another, fibers are selected and processed such that the skew in optical propagation time for signals transmitted over said plurality of optical fibers is minimized. The optical fibers are selected from the same pull and each of said optical fibers has a modal bandwidth greater than or equal to 800 Mhz. km at an operating wavelength of 1300 nm. The invention extends the practical applications of optical fiber ribbons to include synchronous parallel transmission with an aggregate data-rate. times. distance product of greater than 10 Gbit/sec. km.