Fiber optic connector and assembly method

Details Fiber optic connector and assembly method Fiber optic connector and assembly method

G - Physics

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26/197, 26/87, 8

G02B 7/00 (2006.01) G02B 6/40 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 1041332

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A connector for a single fiber optic bundle in which the fiber optic cable ends to be connected are each terminated in a shrinkable metal sleeve or pin. A shrinkable pin has an inside axial bore of hexagonal cross-section and is applied to the fiber optic bundle cold. An applied heating process step shrinks the pin about the fiber optic bundle and applies a force sufficient to constrain the individual glass fibers into an optimum hexagonal pattern in which the ratio glass fiber cross-sectional area within the said hexagon to the effective cross- sectional area of intervening voids is high. After the heating process is complete, and the assembly cools to ambient temperature, there is some relief of the shrink compressive force, however, the fibers remain in their optimum hexagonal cross sectional configuration. Adhesives and resins such as epoxy are relied upon to mechanically fix the fibers of the cable within the termination pin.

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