Patent ID: 9651754
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: G02B

Claim:
1. A fiber optic ribbon, comprising: a plurality of optical fibers arranged side-by-side with one another, wherein each of the optical fibers comprises a glass core and a glass cladding, wherein the glass cladding surrounds and overlays the glass core, wherein the glass cladding of one of the optical fibers is less than 50 micrometers from the glass cladding of an adjoining one of the optical fibers of the fiber optic ribbon, and wherein the optical fibers have a polymeric coating discretely surrounding the glass cladding that is less than 20% of the diameter of the glass core and the glass cladding portions of the optical fiber in thickness, or wherein the optical fibers have no individual polymeric coating at all; and matrix coupling the optical fibers to one another in the ribbon, wherein most of the volume of the ribbon is glass of the optical fibers.