Abstract: Method of production of a coating composition useful for covering glass fiber by means of a polymeric composition consisting of an aqueous suspension or emulsion of a polymer. The coating composition is deposited on the glass fiber and, next, the assembly is submitted to a curing process that is carried out at very high temperature and during a very short period of time.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical device comprising an ionic conductor and a pair of electrodes, the ionic conductor being made of a material that is transparent to light and contains mobile ions and the electrodes being suitable for absorbing and desorbing the ions and being in ionic contact with the ionic conductor. The refractive index in at least a zone of the ionic conductor can be varied under the effect of the voltage applied between the electrodes. The electrodes contain an electrochemically active material selected from an active carbon, a conductive polymer, and an insertion material suitable for inserting ions in its structure.

Abstract: A method of coating an optical fiber constituted by a doped silica core (1) and by silica cladding (2) consists in surrounding the doped silica core (1) and the silica cladding (2) in coating constituted by a first coating portion (3) of photocurable resin and a second coating portion (4) made by extruding a thermoplastic polymer.

Abstract: Coating for an optical fiber and method of manufacturing thereof, the coating comprising at least one partly crosslinked polymer having a level of crosslinking which increases according to a radial distance as one moves from the internal surface (3) of the coating (4) which interfaces with a cladding section (2) to the external surface of the coating (4). The coating comprises a single resin which is composed of a volatile, multifunctional and moderately reactive monomer dissolved in a fast curable oligomer, having a low modulus when polymerized.

Abstract: The present invention concerns an optical fiber cable including a hydrogen-absorbing composition comprising a catalyst and a hydrogen-absorbing component, characterized in that said hydrogen-absorbing component is a mixture of a non-absorbing polymer matrix and a hydrogen-absorbing organic compound including at least one carbon-carbon triple bond.

Abstract: An organic electrolyte electric cell includes a first electrode having the superposition of a first layer containing an electrochemically active material and a porous second layer constituted by a polymeric material and having a free face. A second electrode is provided with a porous layer having at least one free face and containing an electrochemically active material, and the electrodes are assembled by adhesive bonding. The bonding is carried out by coating an adhesive onto the free face of the porous layer of one of the two electrodes and then bringing the free face coated with a film of adhesive into contact with the free face of the porous layer of the other electrode to form an electrochemical couple.

Abstract: An optical fiber includes a primary covering layer, a secondary covering layer transparent to a laser beam, an intermediate covering layer less than 100 nm thick between the primary covering layer and the secondary covering layer and including a coloring element whose coloring properties can be modified by using the laser beam to irradiate the intermediate covering layer to write data.

Abstract: In a covering outside its light-guiding portion, an optical fiber includes at least one crystalline intermetallic compound made up of at least two metals, the compound having a plateau pressure during hydride formation that is less than equal to 5×10−2 atm (where 1 atm=1.013×105 Pa) as measured at 30° C. by a PCT method, the compound being of the form ABxMy where A is constituted by at least one element from columns IIa, IIIb, or IVb of the periodic classification of the elements (CAS version), B is constituted by at least one element from columns Vb, VIII, or IIIa of said classification, and M contains at least one element from columns VIb, VIIb, Ib, or IIb of said classification, where: 0≦x≦10, 0≦y≦3 if A contains elements from column IIa only, and 0.2≦y≦3 if A contains at least one element from columns IIIb or IVb. The optical fiber cable is characterized in that it includes such a crystalline intermetallic compound.

Abstract: The filamentary elements are of a diameter that is less than or equal to 1 millimeter. The support comprises longitudinal channels each intended to house a respective filamentary element, each channel being defined by two longitudinal walls interconnected by a web and defining a longitudinal channel opening, the width of said longitudinal opening being variable by elastically deforming the longitudinal walls between an access configuration giving access to the channel enabling a filamentary element to pass through said opening and a retaining configuration for retaining a filamentary element in the channel. The filamentary elements are selected from optical fibers and electrical coaxial cables.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for manufacturing a graded-index plastics optical fiber of continuously varying index profile, starting from a particular polymer P and a particular compound M1, the method including the steps of: preparing two compositions of different refractive index, allowing the compositions to diffuse one into the other, and spinning the compositions so as to obtain the fiber, wherein, prior to extrusion, the two compositions are subjected to active mixing, and extrusion of the fiber is followed by curing.

Abstract: An optical fiber comprises a silica multimode optical core having a refractive index n1 and at least one polymer optical cladding having a refractive index n2, with n1>n2. It further comprises a heterogeneous polymer intermediate optical cladding situated between the multimode core and the optical cladding and having a refractive index substantially equal to the refractive index n1 of the multimode core.

Abstract: The invention concerns a tunable filter comprising an optical fiber incorporating a Bragg grating on a portion of the fiber. Said fiber portion is coated with a material retained within a confined space and adapted to exert pressure on said Bragg grating to compress said portion of fiber radially and to stretch it longitudinally.

Abstract: In a thin conductor cable configured as a flat ribbon cable and surrounded by a common exterior sheath, the plurality of thin conductors are adhesively grouped together using an emulsion polymer.

Abstract: In a covering outside its light-guiding portion, an optical fiber includes at least one crystalline intermetallic compound made up of at least two metals, the compound having a plateau pressure during hydride formation that is less than equal to 5×10−2 atm (where 1 atm=1.013×105 Pa) as measured at 30° C.

Abstract: Method of production of a coating composition useful for covering glass fiber by means of a polymeric composition consisting of an aqueous suspension or emulsion of a polymer. The coating composition is deposited on the glass fiber and, next, the assembly is submitted to a curing process that is carried out at very high temperature and during a very short period of time.

Abstract: Coating for an optical fiber and method of manufacturing thereof, the coating comprising at least one partly crosslinked polymer having a level of crosslinking which increases according to a radial distance as one moves from the internal surface (3) of the coating (4) which interfaces with a cladding section (2) to the external surface of the coating (4). The coating comprises a single resin which is composed of a volatile, multifunctional and moderately reactive monomer dissolved in a fast curable oligomer, having a low modulus when polymerized.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an organic electrolyte electrochemical cell comprising at least one electrochemical couple made up of two electrodes sandwiching a solid film of porous polymer containing the electrolyte, each electrode comprising a porous layer containing an electrochemically active material and a binder, the method comprising the steps of: a polymer is put into solution in a solvent and the solution is spread in the form of a film on a support; the film of solution is immersed in a volatile non-solvent that is miscible with the solvent in order to precipitate the polymer and the polymer film is dried to eliminate the non-solvent; and the couple made up of the polymer film placed between the electrodes and in contact therewith, and impregnated with the electrolyte, is compressed while being heated to a temperature less than or equal to the temperature at which the polymer film starts to melt so as to obtain incomplete melting of the polymer, the electrodes becoming unseparable after cooling.

Abstract: The invention relates to a supercapacitor having a non-aqueous electrolyte and two carbon electrodes each containing a binder and an electrochemically active material constituted by active carbon having a specific surface area greater than about 2000 m2/g. The binder has a mixture of carboxymethylcellulose and a copolymer of styrene and butadiene.

Abstract: The filamentary elements are of a diameter that is less than or equal to 1 millimeter. The support comprises longitudinal channels each intended to house a respective filamentary element, each channel being defined by two longitudinal walls interconnected by a web and defining a longitudinal channel opening, the width of said longitudinal opening being variable by elastically deforming the longitudinal walls between an access configuration giving access to the channel enabling a filamentary element to pass through said opening and a retaining configuration for retaining a filamentary element in the channel. The filamentary elements are selected from optical fibers and electrical coaxial cables.

Abstract: In a process for the production of an organic electrolyte electric cell with a unitary structure comprising at least one pair of electrodes comprising a first electrode comprising the superposition of a first layer containing an electrochemically active material and a porous second layer constituted by a polymeric material and having a free face and a second electrode comprising a porous layer having at least one free face and containing an electrochemically active material the electrodes are assembled by adhesive bonding. The bonding is carried out by coating an adhesive onto the free face of the porous layer of one of the two electrodes and then bringing the free face coated with a film of adhesive into contact with the free face of the porous layer of the other electrode to form an electrochemical couple.