High fiber density cable with flexible optical fiber ribbons

US12411299B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Prysmian S.p.A. · IT

Inventors

• Clint Nicholaus Anderson · Lexington, US
• Jeffrey Scott Barker · Hickory, US
• Brian G. Risch · Granite Falls, US
• Ryan Truong · Hickory, US
• Ben H. Wells · Irmo, US
• Gavin Lin · Lexington, US
• Donald Ray Parris · Hickory, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 19, 2022
• Grant date: Sep 9, 2025
• Expiry date: Jan 18, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/443
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An exemplary optical cable includes a first type of ribbon bundles, a second type of ribbon bundles, a third type of ribbon bundles, a plurality of strength rods, and an outer jacket. Each of the first, the second, and third type of ribbon bundles includes a first, a second, a third flexible ribbon with corresponding optical fibers disposed within a ribbon bundle jacket. The first type of ribbon bundles is arranged in an interlocking pattern in a central region of the optical cable. The second type of ribbon bundles and the third type of ribbon bundles are disposed around the first type of ribbon bundles in a peripheral region of the optical cable. The outer jacket is disposed around the second and the third type of ribbon bundles, and the plurality of strength rods being at least partially embedded in the outer jacket, where the cumulative cross-sectional area of all of the strength rods in the cable divided by the cumulative cross-sectional area of all glass parts of the optical fibers in the cable is a first value less than 0.22, and where, at a temperature between −40° C. and 0° C. and at a wavelength of 1550 nm, the attenuation increase of the optical fibers in the cable relat…