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Optical fibre manufacture

US4568563A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 21, 1985
Grant dateFeb 4, 1986
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Expiry dateJun 21, 2005

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B6/4402
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An optical fibre is provided with a moisture barrier layer by exposing a plastics coating on the fibre to a pulsed plasma in order to modify the surface, for instance by implantation of silicon and/or by the deposition on the plastics layer an inorganic layer such as a non-stoichiometric composition of silicon and carbon or silicon and nitrogen.

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