Stephanie L Webb

US Patent:

58091955, Sep 15, 1998

Filed:

Jan 24, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/788781

Inventors:

Robert J. Brown - Buford GA
Kenneth Wade Jackson - Snellville GA
Kenneth Martin Kroupa - Roswell GA
Clyde Jefferson Lever - Buford GA
Stephanie Holland Webb - Alpharetta GA

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

G02B 644

US Classification:

385114

Abstract:

A modular optical fiber ribbon has a repetitive color identifier arrangement for the individual coated fibers defining one or more adjacent modules. Each module is identified by a digital code imprinted or otherwise marked on the top surface of the ribbon so that each individual fiber in the entire ribbon structure is uniquely identified. Each module or portion thereof can be broken out from the ribbon by means of a break-out tool which is sufficiently hard to cut the matrix bonding material which holds the fibers in the ribbon configuration, but which is not hard enough to cut the fiber coating.