Method of repairing optical submarine cable and repair cable used in the method

摘要

A method of repairing an optical transmission cable which is broken at a breakage point, including the steps of fabricating a second cable by using the even number of first cables each of which includes a first area comprised of a bridge fiber and a second area comprised of at least one kind of fiber such that the first and second areas are arranged in a length-wise direction of each of the first cables, the second cable having opposite end surfaces having the same fiber arrangement as that of exposed surfaces of the optical transmission cable which are caused by a breakage of the optical transmission cable, first areas being spliced to each other and the second areas being spliced to each other in the second cable, and inserting the second cable into the optical transmission cable at the breakage point.