Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a resin composition for coating an optical fiber, the resin composition including: a base resin that contains an oligomer, a monomer, and a photopolymerization initiator; and inorganic oxide particles, in which the inorganic oxide particles include a plurality of particle groups having different volume average particle sizes, and the volume average particle size is measured by small-angle X-ray scattering.

Abstract: An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber comprising a core and a cladding, and a coating resin layer, wherein the coating resin layer has a primary resin layer being in contact with the glass fiber and coating the glass fiber, and a secondary resin layer coating the primary resin layer, and the primary resin layer and the secondary resin layer are resin layers containing inorganic oxide particles.

Abstract: The resin composition according to an aspect of the present disclosure is a resin composition containing a photopolymerizable compound comprising urethane (meth)acrylate and a polyrotaxane, and a photopolymerization initiator, and the content of the polyrotaxane is 0.05% by mass or more and 11% by mass or less based on the total amount of the photopolymerizable compound.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optical fiber ribbon in which a plurality of optical fibers are covered with a ribbon resin, wherein the ribbon resin is a cured product of a resin composition including a base resin containing oligomers, monomers and a photopolymerization initiator, and inorganic oxide particles.

Abstract: An optical fiber includes a glass fiber that includes a core and a cladding and a coating resin layer that coats the glass fiber by being in contact with the glass fiber. The coating resin layer includes a cured material of an ultraviolet ray curable resin composition having a dissolved oxygen concentration of greater than or equal to 8.5 mg/L.

Abstract: An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber comprising a core and a cladding, and a coating resin layer covering the outer periphery of the glass fiber, wherein the coating resin layer has a primary resin layer being in contact with the glass fiber and covering the glass fiber and a secondary resin layer covering the outer periphery of the primary resin layer, the secondary resin layer comprises hydrophobic spherical silica particles, and the content of the silica particles is 7% by mass or more and 60% by mass or less based on the total amount of the secondary resin layer, and the absolute value of the surface potential of the optical fiber is 10 mV or more and 60 mV or less.

Abstract: The optical fiber comprises a glass fiber comprising a core and a cladding, a primary resin layer in contact with the glass fiber and covering the glass fiber, and a secondary resin layer covering the primary resin layer, wherein the primary resin layer contains a cured product of a resin composition containing a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer, a monomer, a photopolymerization initiator and an aromatic acid compound, a content of the aromatic acid compound is 20 ppm or more and 12000 ppm or less based on a total amount of the resin composition, and Young's modulus of the primary resin layer is 0.6 MPa or less at 23° C.±2° C.

Abstract: An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber; a primary resin layer coating an outer periphery of the glass fiber; and a secondary resin layer coating an outer periphery of the primary resin layer, and a pH of the primary resin layer is greater than a pH of the secondary resin layer.

Abstract: An optical fiber includes a glass fiber that includes a core and a cladding and a coating resin layer that coats the glass fiber by being in contact with the glass fiber. The coating resin layer includes a cured material of an ultraviolet ray curable resin composition having a dissolved oxygen concentration of greater than or equal to 8.5 mg/L.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical fiber is a method for manufacturing an optical fiber including a glass fiber, and a coating resin layer that coats the glass fiber by being in contact with the glass fiber. The method includes a step of increasing a dissolved oxygen concentration in an ultraviolet ray curable resin composition, a step of applying the ultraviolet ray curable resin composition, in which the dissolved oxygen concentration is increased, onto the glass fiber, and a step of curing the ultraviolet ray curable resin composition by irradiating the ultraviolet ray curable resin composition that is applied onto the glass fiber with an ultraviolet ray.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical fiber includes: a coating step of forming a first layer by applying a first ultraviolet ray curable resin composition onto a glass fiber, and then, of forming a second layer by applying a second ultraviolet ray curable resin composition onto the first layer; a first irradiation step of curing the first layer and the second layer by irradiating the first layer and the second layer with an ultraviolet ray, and of obtaining the optical fiber including a primary resin layer and a secondary resin layer; and a second irradiation step of irradiating the optical fiber with an ultraviolet ray at an illuminance of less than or equal to one tenth of an illuminance in the first irradiation step for an irradiation time of longer than or equal to 10 times an irradiation time in the first irradiation step.

Abstract: An optical fiber includes a glass fiber and a coating resin layer with which the glass fiber is covered, wherein the coating resin layer includes tin and a cured ultraviolet curable resin composition containing 2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyldiphenyl phosphine as a photoinitiator, a percentage of uncured components having a molecular weight of 1000 or less included in the coating resin layer is 15% by mass or less, and a fraction of an amount of a phosphorus-tin complex with respect to an amount of hydrocarbon on the surface of coating resin layer is 1000 ppm or less.

Abstract: An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber and a coating resin layer covering the glass fiber, the coating resin layer having a primary resin layer and a secondary resin layer, the primary resin layer comprising a cured resin composition obtained by curing a resin composition comprising an oligomer, a monomer, and a photopolymerization initiator, wherein the oligomer is a reaction product of a polyol compound, an isocyanate compound, and a hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylate compound; a proportion of a primary hydroxyl group of hydroxyl groups included in the polyol compound is 3.5% or less; and a Young's modulus of the secondary resin layer at ?40° C. is 1780 MPa or more.

Abstract: An optical fiber according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a glass fiber having a core and a cladding covering the core, and a coating resin layer covering the glass fiber, wherein when the adhesion between the glass fiber and the coating resin layer at 85° C. is defined as x and the elastic modulus of the coating resin layer at 85° C. and at a frequency of 11 Hz is defined as y, the x is 0.2 to 0.6 kgf, the y is 600 to 6000 MPa, and the x and the y satisfy a relationship represented by y >222.1e4.7799x.

Abstract: An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber and a coating resin layer covering the glass fiber, the coating resin layer having a primary resin layer and a secondary resin layer, the primary resin layer comprising a cured resin composition obtained by curing a resin composition comprising an oligomer, a monomer, and a photopolymerization initiator, wherein the oligomer is a reaction product of a polyol compound, an isocyanate compound, and a hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylate compound; a proportion of a primary hydroxyl group of hydroxyl groups included in the polyol compound is 3.5% or less; and a Young's modulus of the secondary resin layer at ?40° C. is 1780 MPa or more.

Abstract: An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber, and a coating resin layer with which the glass fiber is covered, the coating resin layer has a plurality of layers, the plurality of layers includes a first layer being in contact with the glass fiber, and a longest diameter at ?40° C. of a void formed in the first layer is 100% or more and 300% or less of a longest diameter at 23° C. thereof, or a longest diameter at ?40° C. of a void formed in the first layer is 100% or more and 600% or less of a longest diameter at 23° C. thereof, and a Young's modulus of the first layer is 0.3 MPa or less.

Abstract: Provided is a coated optical fiber excellent in both characteristics of the microbending loss resistance and the low-temperature characteristic. The coated optical fiber 1 comprises an optical fiber 10 that has a cladding layer composed of glass formed on an outer periphery of a glass core, a primary coating layer 20 that coats an outer periphery of the optical fiber 10, and a secondary coating layer 30 that coats an outer periphery of the primary coating layer 20, wherein the primary coating layer 20 has a Young's modulus of 1.2 MPa or less, the secondary coating layer 30 has a Young's modulus of 700 MPa or more, and the primary coating layer 20 contains tin in a content of 70 ppm or less.

Abstract: An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber, and a coating resin layer having a primary resin layer and a secondary resin layer, wherein the primary resin layer consists of a cured resin composition containing an oligomer, a monomer and a photopolymerization initiator, the oligomer is a reaction product of a specific polyol compound, a polyisocyanate compound, and a hydroxyl group-containing acrylate compound, the photopolymerization initiator includes 2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyldiphenyl phosphine and 1-hydroxycyclohexyl phenyl ketone at a mass ratio of 5:1 to 1:1, and a content of 2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyldiphenyl phosphine in the resin composition is 1.5 to 2.5% by mass.

Abstract: An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber, and a coating resin layer having a primary resin layer and a secondary resin layer, wherein the primary resin layer consists of a cured resin composition containing an oligomer, a monomer and a photopolymerization initiator, the oligomer is a reaction product of a specific polyol compound, a polyisocyanate compound, and a hydroxyl group-containing acrylate compound, the photopolymerization initiator includes 2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyldiphenyl phosphine and 1-hydroxycyclohexyl phenyl ketone at a mass ratio of 5:1 to 1:1, and a content of 2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyldiphenyl phosphine in the resin composition is 1.5 to 2.5% by mass.

Abstract: An optical fiber 1A comprises an optical transmission member 10 including a core 12 and a clad 14, a primary resin layer 22, and a secondary resin layer 24. The effective area of the optical transmission member 10 is 130 ?m2 or larger. The transmission loss of the optical transmission member 10 at a wavelength of 1550 nm is 0.165 dB/km or smaller. The Young's modulus of the primary resin layer 22 is 0.7 MPa or lower, and the Young's modulus of the secondary resin layer 24 is 600 MPa or higher and 1500 MPa or lower. The difference between the transmission loss when the optical fiber 1A is wound at a tension of 80 g around a bobbin on which a metal mesh member having vertical wires of a 50-?m diameter and horizontal wires of a 50-?m diameter are wound and spaced at a pitch of 150 ?m, and the transmission loss of an optical fiber coil is 1.0 dB/km or smaller.