Patent ID: 8331748

Claim:
An armored fiber optic assembly, comprising: a fiber optic assembly having at least one bend-insensitive multimode optical fiber; and a dielectric armor surrounding the fiber optic assembly, the dielectric armor comprising at least one layer formed from a rigid material and having an armor profile, wherein the armor profile has a band thickness T 1 and a web thickness T 2 , the band thickness T 1 is between about 0.5 millimeters and about five millimeters, the web thickness T 2 is in the range of 0.1T 1 ≦T 2 ≦T 1 , and when the armored fiber optic assembly is wrapped around a mandrel having a diameter of 120 millimeters six times, the at least one optical fiber exhibits a delta attenuation of less than 0.2 decibels at a wavelength of 850 nanometers.