A device for applying a distribution cabling tape system includes a distribution cabling tape having an adhesive capable of adhering to a concrete or asphalt substrate and a distribution cable. The device includes an endoscope camera, wherein movement of the device in one direction simultaneously applies both the distribution cable and the distribution cabling tape at a location on the substrate viewable by the endoscope camera. A method for registering a cable and a cabling tape into a conduit in a concrete or asphalt substrate includes using an endoscope to view the location at which the cable and cabling tape are applied.

The present disclosure incudes a fiber optic cable having a conduit including a conduit wall defining a conduit passage that extends longitudinally through the conduit. The conduit also includes an adhesive injection port defined through the conduit wall and at least one optical fiber within the conduit passage. The cable further includes a fiber lock including an adhesive volume in communication with the adhesive injection port. The adhesive volume includes a main adhesive volume positioned within the conduit passage and bonded to the optical fiber. The main adhesive volume is fixed to prevent longitudinal movement relative to the conduit.

An optical fiber ribbon that includes 16-48 parallel optical fiber core wires and a connecting resin that connects adjacent optical fiber core wires. The outer diameter D of the optical fiber core wires is 160-220 μm, and when N is the number of optical fiber core wires and S is the bending strain of the optical fiber core wires, S=0.167×N/2(%) or less.

A method of preparing a preformed fiber optic circuit for later termination to at least one fiber optic connector includes providing a substrate for supporting a plurality of optical fibers, the substrate including at least one layer of flexible foil, wherein the flexible foil may be formed from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) according to one example and peeling a layer including at least the optical fibers from the at least one layer of flexible foil.

An optical fiber management tray, such as a splice tray, and related assemblies. The tray includes fiber guiding features for improved routing of reliable ribbon fiber on the tray. In some embodiments, a fiber management tray is configured to receive a routed fiber ribbon and a plurality of routed individual optical fibers, the tray being further configured to support a plurality of individual fiber splices that splice the fibers of the ribbon fiber to the individual fibers.

An MCF having a structure excellent in mass productivity and suppressing increases in splicing cost and loss are provided. The MCF includes 12 or 16 cores, a cladding, and a coating. The cores are arranged at positions of line symmetry while no adjacent relationship is established between the cores having an adjacent relationship with any core. A coating diameter is 235-265 .Math.m, a cladding diameter CD is from CD.sub.nominal -1 .Math.m to CD.sub.nominal +1 .Math.m with a nominal value CD.sub.nominal of 195 .Math.m or less, an MFD at 1310 nm is from MFD-reference-value -0.4 .Math.m to the MCF-reference-value+0.4 .Math.m with the MFD-reference-value of 8.2-9.2 .Math.m, and a 22m-cable-cutoff wavelength λ.sub.cc is 1260-1360 nm. A core’s zero-dispersion wavelength is a wavelength-reference-value - 12 nm to the wavelength-reference-value+12 nm with the wavelength-reference-value of 1312-1340 nm, and a dispersion slope at the wavelength is 0.092 ps/(nm.sup.2.Math.km) or less. A shortest distance from a cover-cladding interface to each core center, a structure, and optical characteristics satisfy predetermined conditions.

Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an optical fiber cable. The optical fiber cable includes a cable jacket having an inner jacket surface and an outer jacket surface. The outer jacket surface is an outermost surface of the optical fiber cable, and the inner jacket surface defines an internal jacket bore. The optical fiber cable also includes at least one subunit disposed within the internal jacket bore. Each of the at least one subunit includes a foamed tube having an inner subunit surface and an outer subunit surface. The inner subunit surface defines a central subunit bore. Each of the at least one subunit also includes a stack of at least two optical fiber ribbons disposed in the central subunit bore of the foamed tube. Each of the at least two optical fiber ribbons comprising at least two optical fibers. The stack occupies from 85%-95% of a cross-sectional area of the central subunit bore such that the central subunit bore provides from 5% to 15% of free space around the stack along at least a portion of a length of the foamed tube.

An optical fiber ribbon is configured by arranging in parallel and coupling a plurality of single-core optical fibers. The optical fibers adjacent to each other are intermittently bonded by coupling parts at predetermined intervals in the longitudinal direction of the optical fiber ribbon. The coupling parts adjacent to each other in the width direction are disposed to be displaced from each other in the longitudinal direction of the optical fiber ribbon. In the optical fiber ribbon, the adjacent optical fibers are intermittently coupled by the coupling parts in the longitudinal direction, and the amounts of resin of the coupling parts are not uniform in the longitudinal direction of the optical fibers. Moreover, the Young's modulus of resin constituting the coupling part is preferably 130 MPa or less, and more preferably 80 MPa or less.

An optical fiber unit includes: an optical fiber ribbon in which a plurality of optical fibers are arranged in parallel and connected to each other; a colored bundle tape longitudinally wrapped around an optical fiber ribbon bundle in which a plurality of the optical fiber ribbons are stranded together; and a colored bundle yarn spirally wound around the optical fiber ribbon bundle and the bundle tape.

An optical-fiber ribbon includes optical fibers (e.g., reduced-diameter optical fibers) arranged in parallel within optical-fiber units, wherein at least one adjacent pair of optical-fiber units is separated by a longitudinal adhesive-free spacing for a portion of the optical-fiber ribbon's length. Typically, each adjacent pair of optical-fiber units is separated by an adhesive-free spacing for a respective portion of the optical-fiber assembly's longitudinal length. In an exemplary embodiment, longitudinal adhesive-free spacings effectively increase the width of an optical-fiber ribbon formed of reduced-diameter optical fibers so that the optical-fiber ribbon achieves a more conventional optical-fiber ribbon width, thereby facilitating mass-fusion splicing using standard splicing equipment.