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Component for connection to a multi-core fiber, and a method of manufacture

US5748820A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 21, 1995
Grant dateMay 5, 1998
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Expiry dateMar 21, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B6/3861
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The connection component comprises a plurality of optical fibers united at a common end in such a manner that their claddings are mutually tangential and the axes of their cores occupy a configuration that corresponds to the configuration of the axes of a multi-core with which said common end is to be connected, said fibers being free from one another at their opposite ends. The method brings the fibers together by depositing a drop of liquid thereon.

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