ROUND, DRY, ALL DIELECTRIC, FAN OUT COMPACT OPTICAL FIBER CABLE

摘要

A round, compact, optical fiber cable comprises anouter protective jacket of insulating material having aplurality of individual bundles of optical fibers within theouter jacket. Each bundle includes an anti-buckling rod ofelectrically non-conductive material and encapsulated by alow modulus material. A plurality of optical fibersencapsulated also in a low modulus material is wound on andabout the low modulus material encapsulating the rod in amanner that retards contraction and microbending of theoptical fibers. Each of the bundles includes one or moreprotective jackets of electrically, non-conductive materialenclosing the plurality of fibers, anti-buckling rod andencapsulating material. Also, means are provided foridentifying individual bundles and fibers.