US Patent Issued to HERAEUS QUARZGLAS on Feb. 24 for "Microstructured optical fiber and preform for same having specific oxygen deficiency center and chlorine concentrations" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,755, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to HERAEUS QUARZGLAS GMBH & Co. KG (Hanau, Germany).

"Microstructured optical fiber and preform for same having specific oxygen deficiency center and chlorine concentrations" was invented by Christian Neumann (Hanau, Germany), Manuel Rosenberger (Hanau, Germany), Kay Schuster (Bitterfeld, Germany) and Jaqueline Plass (Hanau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to microstructured optical fibers that are drawn through hollow channels and have a core region, which extends along a fiber longitudinal axis, and a jacket region surrounding the core region. The aim of the inventio...