Patent ID: 8805142
Filing Date: 2014-08-12
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
1. A cable, comprising: a polymeric cable jacket; a polymeric buffer tube within the polymeric cable jacket, the polymeric buffer tube defining an interior thereof; a plurality of optical fibers arranged as a ribbon stack and located in the interior defined the polymeric buffer tube; and strength members at least partially embedded in the polymeric cable jacket, wherein the strength members include a first pair of strength members on one side of the polymeric cable jacket and a second pair of strength members on an opposite side of the polymeric cable jacket, wherein the strength members have a strength member area and the ribbon stack has a ribbon stack fiber area, wherein the strength members have a strength member elastic modulus and the ribbon stack has a ribbon stack fiber elastic modulus, wherein a product of the strength member area and the strength member elastic modulus is a strength member EA and a product of the ribbon area and the ribbon stack elastic modulus is a ribbon stack EA, and wherein the ratio of the ribbon stack EA to the strength member EA is at least 0.0015 times the number of optical fibers in the ribbon stack.