Design and Performance of Field Installable Optical Connector Realizing Physical Contact Connection without Fiber Endface Polishing

Yoshiteru ABE; Mitsuru KIHARA; Masaru KOBAYASHI; Shinsuke MATSUI; Shuichiro ASAKAWA; Ryo NAGASE; Shigeru TOMITA

doi:10.1587/transele.E93.C.1411

Special Section on Recent Development of Electro-Mechanical Devices (Selected Papers from IS-EMD2009)

Design and Performance of Field Installable Optical Connector Realizing Physical Contact Connection without Fiber Endface Polishing

Yoshiteru ABE, Mitsuru KIHARA, Masaru KOBAYASHI, Shinsuke MATSUI, Shuichiro ASAKAWA, Ryo NAGASE, Shigeru TOMITA

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Keywords: optical connector, optical fiber, physical contact connection, field installable connector

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2010 Volume E93.C Issue 9 Pages 1411-1415

DOI https://doi.org/10.1587/transele.E93.C.1411

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Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a new type of field installable optical connector that enables us to realize physical contact connection without polishing the fiber endface by using a sharpened fiber endface and the compression force of buckled fiber. We confirmed that all the assembled connectors achieved physical contact connection without the fiber endface being polished, and provided good optical performance with a low insertion loss of 0.08dB and a high return loss of over 49dB.

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