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Optical waveguide termination

US6690874B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

ALCATEL · FR

Inventors

Ralph Bohme · Mönchengladbach, DE
Reinhard Girbig · Mönchengladbach, DE
Hans-Werner Korporal · Duisburg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 19, 2002
Grant date	Feb 10, 2004
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 19, 2022

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG02B6/442
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An optical waveguide termination of an optical waveguide phase conductor, consisting of a tubular composite insulator, with a top fitting attached to one end and a bottom fitting attached to the opposite end, in which an optical cable is routed in a fluid-tight manner into the bottom fitting; the optical waveguides and/or cores of the optical cable are routed in the interior of the composite insulator to the top fitting; the optical waveguides and/or cores lie as a spare length in the top fitting; at least one splice cassette, for accommodating the splice joints of the optical fibres of the optical cable and of the optical fibres of the phase conductor, is disposed in the top fitting; and the interior of the composite insulator is filled, free from bubbles, with a liquid filling compound.

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