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Buffered optical fiber having a strippable buffer layer

  • US 5,684,910 A
  • Filed: 06/24/1996
  • Issued: 11/04/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/24/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A buffered optical fiber, which comprises:

  • an optical fiber with at least one layer of a coating material thereon;

    a plastic buffering material which encloses said optical fiber and said at least one coating layer; and

    a boundary layer which is interposed between the outermost of said at least one coating layer and said buffering material, wherein said boundary layer has a wall thickness greater than at least about one-twenty-fifth of the wall thickness of the layer of buffering material.

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