Optical connector and method of assembling the same

Abstract

It is an object to obtain an optical connector capable of executing an assembling work safely and easily without causing a problem, for example, a breakage of an end face of a short optical fiber provided in a ferrule when assembling a site optical fiber, and a method of assembling the optical connector. In an optical connector having a ferrule 3 including a short optical fiber 12 and a positioning mechanism 5 for placing and fixing an optical fiber 14 to be connected to the short optical fiber 12 in a predetermined position, an end face of the short optical fiber 12 and that of the optical fiber 14 are matched with each other through an almost sheet-like protecting member 17 for transmitting a light in a predetermined refractive index and the optical fiber 14 is positioned by an application of an elastic force to the short optical fiber 12 side.

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