OPTICAL FIBER TAPE CAPABLE OF BEING SEPARATED INTO SINGLE FIBER, AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING THE SAME

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical fiber tape having a function capable of removing a tape coating in the middle part of the optical fiber tape and easily separating single optical fibers in order to construct a network through optical fibers. SOLUTION: In the optical fiber tape prepared by linearly arranging coated single optical fibers 7 each concentrically coated and covering the fibers with an coverall coating 9, a space or a material 10 having the Young's modulus lower than that of the overall coating is made present between the single coated optical fibers 7 and the overall coating 9.