1651 results about "Plastic optical fiber" patented technology

A fabric, in the form of a woven or knitted fabric or garment, including a flexible information infrastructure integrated within the fabric for collecting, processing, transmitting and receiving information concerning-but not limited to-a wearer of the fabric. The fabric allows a new way to customize information processing devices to "fit" the wearer by selecting and plugging in (or removing) chips/sensors from the fabric thus creating a wearable, mobile information infrastructure that can operate in a stand-alone or networked mode. The fabric can be provided with sensors for monitoring physical aspects of the wearer, for example body vital signs, such as heart rate, EKG, pulse, respiration rate, temperature, voice, and allergic reaction, as well as penetration of the fabric. The fabric consists of a base fabric ("comfort component"), and an information infrastructure component which can consist of a penetration detection component, or an electrical conductive component, or both. The preferred penetration detection component is a sheathed optical fiber. The information infrastructure component can include, in addition to an electrically conductive textile yarn, a sensor or a connector for a sensor. A process is provided for making an electrical interconnection between intersecting electrically conductive yarns. Furthermore, a process is established for sheathing the plastic optical fiber and protecting it.

The present invention provides an optical fiber in which the transmission loss increase is suppressed even under a high-humidity condition or under a water-immersed condition. A colored optical fiber (22) according to an embodiment of the present invention is a colored optical fiber (22) formed by applying a colored layer to an optical fiber (14) including a glass optical fiber coated with at least a double-layered coating layer of a soft layer and a hard layer, and the ratio of thermal expansion coefficient between the coating layer after the colored layer of the colored optical fiber (22) is applied and the coating layer of the optical fiber (14) before the colored layer is applied is 0.87 or more. Furthermore, an optical fiber ribbon (32) according to another embodiment of the present invention is an optical fiber (32) formed by arranging a plurality of the colored optical fiber (22) in the form of a plane and coating them all together with a ribbon resin and the ratio of thermal expansion coefficient between the coating layer after the colored layer of the colored optical fiber (22) is applied and the coating layer of the optical fiber before the colored layer is applied is 0.90 or more.

A variably configurable fiber optic terminal as a local convergence point in a fiber optic network is disclosed. The fiber optic terminal has an enclosure having a base and a cover which define an interior space. A feeder cable having at least one optical fiber and a distribution cable having at least one optical fiber are received into the interior space through a feeder cable port and a distribution cable port, respectively. A movable chassis positions in the interior space and is movable between a first position, a second position and third position. The movable chassis has a splitter holder area, a cassette area and a parking area. A cassette movably positions in the cassette area. A splitter module holder having a splitter module movably positioned therein movably positions in the splitter holder area. The optical fiber of the feeder cable and the optical fiber of the distribution cable are optically connected through the cassette, which also may be through the splitter module. In such case, the optical fiber of the feeder cable optically connects to an input optical fiber to the slitter module, where the optical signal is split into a plurality of output optical fibers. One of the plurality of output optical fibers connects to the optical fiber of the distribution cable for distribution towards a subscriber premises. The interior space is variably configurable by changeably positioning the cassette and splitter modules in the movable chassis.

A method is described using optical fiber technology to measure the vibration characteristics of long slender structures subjected to dynamic disturbances imposed by water or wind generated loads. The method is based on making bending strain measurements at selected locations along the length of long slender structures such as marine risers or large ropes using fiber optics technology including Optical Time Domain Reflectometry and Bragg diffraction gratings. Engineering interpretation of information obtained from bending strains determines the vibration characteristics including frequency, amplitude, and wave length. Maximum bending strain measurements assess pending structural damage. One application is measurement of vortex induced vibrations (VIV) response of marine risers. The fiber optics based method is also applicable to the measurement of the bending characteristics of spoolable pipe using plastic optical fibers which can be interpreted to assess the pipe structural integrity and to prevent lock-up during deployment into a small diameter annulus.

The invention discloses an intelligent management system of an ODN (optical distribution network) based on RFID (radio frequency identification). An RFID technology is utilized to bind an RFID electronic tag with a global unique ID (identifier) to each optical fiber connector; an RFID identifier and an electronic gate lock are added in a distribution box; by matching with back-ground management software and a mobile terminal, when any optical fiber is changed, the back-ground management software is used for sending an instruction to the mobile terminal of an operator; the mobile terminal uses a GIS (geographic information system) to guide the operator to search the position of an optical fiber connecting end, the electronic gate lock is opened, and all the optical fibers are scanned; and the operation is finished under the guidance of the RFID identifier and an LED (light-emitting diode) lamp, so that any misoperation can be perceived in time. By using the technical scheme, thousands of optical cables and tail optical fibers dispersed in the fields can be found out in time if necessary, and the accuracy of all the operations and the changes of the optical fibers can be further ensured.

The invention relates to coated optical fibers comprising soft primary coatings and to such primary coatings for protecting glass optical fibers having a sufficient high resistance against cavitation. In particular, the primary coatings have a cavitation strength at which a tenth cavitation appears (sigma10cav) of at least about 1.0 MPa as measured at a deformation rate of 0.20% min-1 and of at least about 1.4 times their storage modulus at 23° C. The coating preferably shows strain hardening in a relative Mooney plot, preferably has a strain energy release rate Go of about 20 J/m2 or more, and preferably has a low volumetric thermal expansion coefficient. The invention furthermore provides a method and apparatus for measuring the cavitation strength of a primary coating.

A technique is described for providing compensation for the thermo-optic effect in a large-mode-area optical fiber, filter fiber, or the like. An optical fiber is provided having a refractive index profile with ambient temperature loss characteristics including a low loss for a first type of light and a high loss for a second type of light. A hot region of the fiber connected into an optical system is identified, in which a thermal index gradient is induced in the fiber. The thermal index gradient, in the absence of a compensating index gradient, would result in degradation of the fiber's ambient temperature loss characteristics. The fiber is arranged according to a layout having a position-varying bending diameter. Throughout the identified hot region, the fiber has a compensating bending diameter that induces a compensating index gradient in the fiber. Outside of the identified hot region, the fiber has an applied operating bending diameter that maintains the fiber's ambient temperature loss characteristics.

A fiber optic mechanical splice connector including a single connector element operable for providing optical fiber alignment and strain relief includes opposed splice components that define first and second grooves for receiving the bare glass portions of mating optical fibers, as well as the coated or buffered portion of at least one of the optical fibers when the splice components are biased together by an actuator. The mating optical fibers are aligned while the coated or buffered portion of one of the optical fibers is retained within the same connector element, thus eliminating positioning problems that occur when separate connector elements are utilized for fiber alignment and strain relief. The splice components may be unbiased to allow removal of at least one of the mating optical fibers without destroying the connector assembly or potentially damaging the optical fibers.

The invention relates to a frequency combination-based optical frequency domain reflection method and system. According to the frequency combination-based optical frequency domain reflection method and system, electro-optic modulation and acousto-optic modulation are performed on local light, so that optical pulses can be obtained; the optical pulses, adopted as detection pulse optical signals, are inputted into a test optical fiber; coupling and frequency beating are performed on obtained Rayleigh backscattered optical signals and the local light; obtained optical signals are subjected to photoelectric conversion and demodulation; and therefore, an optical frequency reflectometer can be obtained. According to the electro-optic modulation, single-frequency signals are adopted to perform modulation. According to the acousto-optic modulation, pulse signals are adopted to perform modulation. A plurality of frequency components of optical combed signals obtained through the electro-optic modulation are simultaneously subjected to frequency sweeping, so that optical pulses can be obtained. The frequency combination-based optical frequency domain reflection method and system have the advantages of large detection range, high spatial resolution, low hardware cost and low software complexity.

The invention relates to an optical fiber near-infrared spectrometer in the technical field of medical devices. The optical fiber near-infrared spectrometer uses multi-tail optical fiber collimator as light source optical fiber, uses a number lock technology as a technical scheme for weak signal extraction, uses a laser diode with a PD as a light source for sinusoidal modulation, uses an avalanche photodiode (APD) or photomultiplier tube (PMT) as a detector, and uses thick core-diameter plastic optical fiber, liquid-core optical fiber, silica optical fiber, a silica optical fiber bundle or glass optical fiber bundle as detection optical fiber. The invention has the advantages that the instrument can conduct nondestructive real-time hemodynamic parameter detection to biological tissues sheltered by hairs, the noise level of the instrument is low, the time resolution is high, the stability is high, the price is cheap, the hardware circuit design is greatly simplified and the portability of the instrument is realized.

The invention relates to an optical fiber field connector. A dismountable sleeve bin is sleeved outside a main body; the main body and the dismountable sleeve bin are provided with standard type interfaces; the main body is in a hollow structure; an optical fiber core insert is arranged at the front end of the main body; a preset optical fiber is arranged in the optical fiber core insert; a tail sleeve is arranged at the back end of the optical fiber core insert; a mechanical joint consisting of a substrate, a splint and a lantern ring is arranged in the main body; the front end of the mechanical joint is abutted with the optical fiber core insert, and the back end of the mechanical joint is connected with the tail sleeve through a guiding device and a damping device; a second optical fiber is arranged in the tail sleeve; and an outer protecting sleeve adopts a rotary screw thread structure to clamp the tail sleeve to prevent the second optical fiber from falling off and sliding. In the optical fiber field connector of the invention, the second tail end of the preset optical fiber is connected with the second optical fiber, a connection protecting box is not needed, storage protection for a bare optical fiber is unnecessary, when the optical fiber field connector is assembled, a special tool and grinding are not needed, whether the connection is successful can be detected at the field, and after installation, the field connector can be repeatedly opened for use.

A method and apparatus for manufacturing a graded-index plastics optical fiber of continuously varying index profile, starting from a particular polymer P and a particular compound M1, the method including the steps of: preparing two compositions of different refractive index, allowing the compositions to diffuse one into the other, and spinning the compositions so as to obtain the fiber, wherein, prior to extrusion, the two compositions are subjected to active mixing, and extrusion of the fiber is followed by curing.