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US 12,436,344 B1Granted
Optical fiber array connector device
AssigneeTwinstar Technologies Co. Ltd.
InventorsJinxi Shen, Wei Hou, Kuishan Liu, Lianjun Zhang
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Abstract
An optical fiber array unit of an optical connector includes an opposing pair of grooved plates holding at least three rows of optical fibers between them, with at least some of the optical fibers in each of the at least three rows touching two optical fibers of an adjacent one of the at least three rows. Each grooved plate of the opposing pair has an array of parallel fiber-holding grooves. In some implementations, a groove pitch of the array may be such that the cores of the optical fibers are located at nodes of a square lattice.
Claims17
An apparatus comprising:
- an optical fiber array unit comprising:
- an opposing pair of grooved plates, each grooved plate of the opposing pair has an array of parallel fiber-holding grooves having a groove pitch P;
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- at least three rows of optical fibers having longitudinally aligned ends thereof held between the opposing pair of grooved plates, with at least some of the optical fibers in each of the at least three rows touching two optical fibers of an adjacent one of the at least three rows;
- and wherein the groove pitch P of the array of parallel fiber-holding grooves of each grooved plate is approximately √2d, where d is an outer diameter of at least some of the optical fibers held between the opposing pair of grooved plates.
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