US 12,111,494 B2
Optical fiber and method for manufacturing optical fiber
Takahiro Nomura, Osaka (JP); and Kazuyuki Sohma, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/789,287
Filed by SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Aug. 31, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/031878
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 27, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/050257, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 10, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-148903 (JP), filed on Sep. 4, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0042395 A1, Feb. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. G02B 6/122 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 6/1221 (2013.01) 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An optical fiber comprising:
a glass fiber including a core and a cladding; and
a coating resin layer coating the glass fiber in contact with the glass fiber,
wherein the coating resin layer has a primary resin layer coating the glass fiber in contact with the glass fiber and a secondary resin layer coating the primary resin layer,
the primary resin layer comprises a cured product of a first resin composition containing a photopolymerizable compound and a phosphine oxide-based photopolymerization initiator,
the secondary resin layer comprises a cured product of a second resin composition containing a photopolymerizable compound and a phosphine oxide-based photopolymerization initiator,
an amount of the phosphine oxide-based photopolymerization initiator remaining unreacted in the coating resin layer is 0.5 mass % or less, and
the first resin composition and the second resin composition do not contain any photopolymerization initiators other than the phosphine oxide-based photopolymerization initiator.