Optical cable and method for manufacturing thereof

US4993804A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Ernst Mayr · Starnberg, DE
• Ulrich Oestreich · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 13, 1989
• Grant date: Feb 19, 1991
• Expiry date: Nov 13, 2009

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/449
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An optical cable comprises at least one bundle composed of a plurality of light waveguides which are preferably wrapped as a layer on a cable core. A non-hardenable filling compound is provided on the inside region of the light waveguide bundle between the layer of waveguides and core and the outer surfaces of the layer of optical waveguides is coated with a hardenable compound.