Patents by Inventor Pieter Matthijsse
Pieter Matthijsse has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9459400Abstract: The invention relates to a multimode optical fiber having a refractive index profile, comprising a light-guiding core surrounded by one or more cladding layers. The present invention furthermore relates to an optical communication system comprising a transmitter, a receiver and a multimode optical fiber.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Draka Comteq, B.V.Inventors: Pieter Matthijsse, Mattheus Jacobus Nicolaas van Stralen, Mark Peter Marie Jetten, Gert-jan Krabshuis
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Patent number: 8837889Abstract: An optical transmission fiber comprises a central core having an index difference ?n1 with an outer optical cladding; a first inner cladding having an index difference ?n2 with the outer cladding; and a second buried inner cladding having an index difference ?n3 with the outer cladding of less than ?3·10?3. The second buried inner cladding moreover contains Germanium in a weight concentration of between 0.5% and 7%. The fiber shows reduced bending and microbending losses while exhibiting the optical performances of a standard single-mode fiber (SSMF).Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2011Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Draka Comteq, B.V.Inventors: Louis-Anne de Montmorillon, Denis Molin, Pieter Matthijsse, Frans Gooijer, Ivo Flammer, Yves Lumineau, Marianne Bigot-Astruc, Pierre Sillard, Pascale Nouchi
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Patent number: 8542967Abstract: A multi-mode optical waveguide fiber including a central core region having an outer radius surrounded by an inner cladding region having an outer radius, the inner cladding region having a lower index of refraction than the central core region, wherein both the central core and inner cladding regions are doped with fluorine, wherein the refractive index profile of the central core region is of the gradient index type and the central core region in the range of r?[0-ra] comprises germanium at a maximum concentration within the range of 0.5 percent by weight to 4.0 percent by weight taken at a given radius, wherein said fiber has an Overfilled Modal Bandwidth >500 MHz·km at a wavelength of 850 nm and 1300 nm, according to IEC 60793-2-10.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2011Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Draka Comteq, B.V.Inventors: Frans Gooijer, Gertjan Krabshuis, Elise Regnier, Adrian Amezeua-Correa, Pieter Matthijsse, Denis Molin
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Publication number: 20120039361Abstract: A multi-mode optical waveguide fiber including a central core region having an outer radius surrounded by an inner cladding region having an outer radius, the inner cladding region having a lower index of refraction than the central core region, wherein both the central core and inner cladding regions are doped with fluorine, wherein the refractive index profile of the central core region is of the gradient index type and the central core region in the range of r?[0-ra] comprises germanium at a maximum concentration within the range of 0.5 percent by weight to 4.0 percent by weight taken at a given radius, wherein said fiber has an Overfilled Modal Bandwidth >500 MHz·km at a wavelength of 850 nm and 1300 nm, according to IEC 60793-2-10.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2011Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: DRAKA COMTEQ B.V.Inventors: Frans GOOIJER, Gertjan KRABSHUIS, Elise REGNIER, Adrian AMEZCUA-CORREA, Pieter MATTHIJSSE, Denis MOLIN
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Patent number: 8103143Abstract: Disclosed is an optical transmission fiber having reduced bending and microbending losses that is commercially usable in FTTH or FTTC transmission systems.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2011Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Draka Comteq, B.V.Inventors: Louis-Anne de Montmorillon, Denis Molin, Pieter Matthijsse, Frans Gooijer, Emmanuel Petitfrere, Yves Lumineau, Franciscus Johannes Achten, Marianne Bigot-Astruc, Pierre Sillard, Pascale Nouchi
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Publication number: 20110286710Abstract: An optical transmission fiber comprises a central core having an index difference ?n1 with an outer optical cladding; a first inner cladding having an index difference ?n2 with the outer cladding; and a second buried inner cladding having an index difference ?n3 with the outer cladding of less than ?3.10?3. The second buried inner cladding moreover contains Germanium in a weight concentration of between 0.5% and 7%. The fiber shows reduced bending and microbending losses whilst exhibiting the optical performances of a standard single-mode fiber (SSMF).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: DRAKA COMTEQ B.V.Inventors: Louis-Anne de Montmorillon, Pieter Matthijsse, Pascale Nouchi, Denis Molin, Marianne Bigot-Astruc, Pierre Sillard, Frans Gooijer, Ivo Flammer, Yves Lumineau
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Patent number: 7995889Abstract: An optical transmission fiber comprises a central core having an index difference ?n1 with an outer optical cladding; a first inner cladding having an index difference ?n2 with the outer cladding; and a second buried inner cladding having an index difference ?n3 with the outer cladding of less than ?3·10?3. The second buried inner cladding moreover contains Germanium in a weight concentration of between 0.5% and 7%. The fiber shows reduced bending and microbending losses whilst exhibiting the optical performances of a standard single-mode fiber (SSMF).Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2009Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Draka Comteq, B.V.Inventors: Louis-Anne de Montmorillon, Denis Molin, Pieter Matthijsse, Frans Gooijer, Ivo Flammer, Yves Lumineau, Marianne Bigot-Astruc, Pierre Sillard, Pascale Nouchi
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Publication number: 20110164852Abstract: Disclosed is an optical transmission fiber having reduced bending and microbending losses that is commercially usable in FTTH or FTTC transmission systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2011Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: DRAKA COMTEQ B.V.Inventors: Louis-Anne de Montmorillon, Denis Molin, Pieter Matthijsse, Frans Gooijer, Emmanuel Petitfrere, Yves Lumineau, Franciscus Johannes Achten, Marianne Bigot-Astruc, Pierre Sillard, Pascale Nouchi
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Patent number: 7920768Abstract: The present invention relates to a single mode optical fiber comprising a first central region having a radius r1, a maximum refractive index value n1 and at least one second ring surrounding said first central region, which second ring has a radius r2 and a minimum refractive index value n2, wherein n2<n1. The present invention furthermore relates to an optical communication system for multi-channel signal transmission.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2010Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Draka Comteq, B.V.Inventors: Mark Peter Marie Jetten, Pieter Matthijsse
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Patent number: 7899293Abstract: Disclosed is an optical transmission fiber having reduced bending and microbending losses that is commercially usable in FTTH or FTTC transmission systems.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2009Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: Draka Comteq, B.V.Inventors: Louis-Anne de Montmorillon, Denis Molin, Pieter Matthijsse, Frans Gooijer, Emmanuel Petitfrere, Yves Lumineau, Franciscus Johannes Achten, Marianne Bigot-Astruc, Pierre Sillard, Pascale Nouchi
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Patent number: 7894698Abstract: An improved optical fiber achieves both reduced bending and microbending losses, as well as a much higher Brillouin threshold, as compared to standard transmission fibers. The optical fiber comprises a core including at least two dopants and having a refractive index difference ?n1 with an outer optical cladding, a first inner cladding having a refractive index difference ?n2 with the outer cladding, and a depressed, second inner cladding having a refractive index difference ?n3 with the outer cladding of less than ?3×10?3. The radial concentration of at least one of the core dopants varies continuously over the entire core region of the optical fiber.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2009Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Draka Comteq B.V.Inventors: Ivo Flammer, Louis-Anne De Montmorillon, Pieter Matthijsse
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Patent number: 7826691Abstract: The invention relates to an access network for exchanging communication signals between a transit network and at least one communication medium of a user. The communication medium is operatively connected to an exchange by means of an optical fiber connection for exchanging the communication signals, and the exchange is connected to the transit network. The fiber connection comprises at least one multimode fiber, which is bent over at least one first part of its length, in such a manner that the fiber comprises at least one complete winding in the first part thereof mainly for maintaining one or more modes of the communication signals into the fiber. Said modes have been selected from a group comprising the ground mode and one or more lower modes near the ground mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2006Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Draka Comteq B.V.Inventors: Pieter Matthijsse, Marinus Jacob De Fouw
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Publication number: 20100232755Abstract: The present invention relates to a single mode optical fiber comprising a first central region having a radius r1, a maximum refractive index value n1 and at least one second ring surrounding said first central region, which second ring has a radius r2 and a minimum refractive index value n2, wherein n2<n1. The present invention furthermore relates to an optical communication system for multi-channel signal transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2010Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: DRAKA COMTEQ B.V.Inventors: Mark Peter Marie Jetten, Pieter Matthijsse
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Patent number: 7734135Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for manufacturing optical performs, in which one or more layers of glass, doped or undoped, are deposited onto the internal surface of a hollow substrate tube, which deposition is effected by supplying one or more reactive gas mixtures of glass-forming compounds tot the interior of the hollow substrate tube and subsequently generating a non-isothermal plasma in the hollow substrate tube, after which the preform is subjected to a contraction process for the purpose of forming a massive rod, from which optical fibres are drawn.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2003Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Draka Comteq B.V.Inventors: Pieter Matthijsse, Mattheus Jacobus Nicolaas Van Stralen, Henrikus Lambertus Maria Jansen, Johanna Catharina van Lierop Jansen, legal representative, Antonius Cornelis Johannes Maria De Vetter, Marinus Jacob De Fouw
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Patent number: 7734136Abstract: The present invention relates to a single mode optical fiber comprising a first central region having a radius r1, a maximum refractive index value n1 and at least one second ring surrounding said first central region, which second ring has a radius r2 and a minimum refractive index value n2, wherein n2<n1. The present invention furthermore relates to an optical communication system for multi-channel signal transmission.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2006Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Draka Comteq B.V.Inventors: Mark Peter Marie Jetten, Pieter Matthijsse
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Patent number: 7689093Abstract: A single mode optical transmission fiber comprises a depressed core having at least 0.41 weight percent fluorine and an index difference (|?n1|) with pure silica greater than 1.5×10?3, a depressed cladding having at least 1.2 weight percent fluorine and an index difference (|?n2|) with pure silica greater than 4.5×10?3 and an index difference (|?n2|?|?n1|) with the depressed core greater than or equal to 3×10?3.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2009Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: Draka Comteq B.V.Inventors: Pieter Matthijsse, Frans Gooijer, Ivo Flammer, Elise Regnier, Gerard Kuyt
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Publication number: 20100067859Abstract: An optical transmission fiber comprises a central core having an index difference ?n1 with an outer optical cladding; a first inner cladding having an index difference ?n2 with the outer cladding; and a second buried inner cladding having an index difference ?n3 with the outer cladding of less than ?3.10?3. The second buried inner cladding moreover contains Germanium in a weight concentration of between 0.5% and 7%. The fiber shows reduced bending and microbending losses whilst exhibiting the optical performances of a standard single-mode fiber (SSMF).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: DRAKA COMTEQ B.V.Inventors: Louis-Anne De Montmorillon, Pieter Matthijsse, Pascale Nouchi, Denis Molin, Marianne Bigot-Astruc, Pierre Sillard, Frans Gooijer, Ivo Flammer, Yves Lumineau
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Publication number: 20100021117Abstract: Disclosed is an optical transmission fiber having reduced bending and microbending losses that is commercially usable in FTTH or FTTC transmission systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2009Publication date: January 28, 2010Applicant: DRAKA COMTEQ B.V.Inventors: Louis-Anne de Montmorillon, Denis Molin, Pieter Matthijsse, Frans Gooijer, Emmanuel Petitfrere, Yves Lumineau, Franciscus Johannes Achten, Marianne Bigot-Astruc, Pierre Sillard, Pascale Nouchi
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Patent number: 7623747Abstract: An optical transmission fiber includes a central core having an index difference ?n1 with an outer optical cladding; a first inner cladding having an index difference ?n2 with the outer cladding; and a second buried inner cladding having an index difference ?n3 with the outer cladding of less than ?3.10?3. The second buried inner cladding moreover contains Germanium in a weight concentration of between 0.5% and 7%. The fiber shows reduced bending and microbending losses whilst exhibiting the optical performances of a standard single-mode fiber (SSMF).Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2006Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: Draka Comteq B.V.Inventors: Louis-Anne De Montmorillon, Pieter Matthijsse, Pascale Nouchi, Denis Molin, Marianne Bigot-Astruc, Pierre Sillard, Frans Gooijer, Ivo Flammer, Yves Lumineau
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Publication number: 20090279834Abstract: A data communication cable comprising a plurality of optical glass fibres, in which optical glass fibres of the fluorine-doped graded-index multimode glass fibre type are used. The present invention further relates to the use of fluorine-doped graded-index multimode optical glass fibres in an optical glass fibre ribbon. An object of the present invention is to provide a data communication cable in which the maximum difference in signal propagation time between the channels in the data communication cable is reduced to a minimum.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2009Publication date: November 12, 2009Applicant: DRAKA COMTEQ B.V.Inventor: Pieter Matthijsse