Aligning a fiber in an optical fiber connector

A method comprising:

• placing a fiber within a ferrule of a connector such that a fiber center of the fiber is a fiber distance away from a center of the receptacle, the connector having a fixed point;
• measuring the fiber distance between the fiber center and the center of the receptacle;
• measuring an angular offset between the fixed point and the fiber center about the center of the receptacle;
• determining a rotation angle for the fiber distance and the angular offset from an angular correction table;
• and
• rotating the ferrule relative to the connector according to the rotation angle to align a launch diameter with the fixed point.

A method comprising:

• placing a fiber within a ferrule of a connector such that a fiber center of the fiber is a fiber distance away from a center of a receptacle, the placing the fiber within the ferrule comprising disposing the fiber and an assisting fiber into an interior volume of the ferrule and moving the fiber and the assisting fiber with respect to the ferrule, the connector having a fixed point indicated by an alignment key;
• measuring the fiber distance between the fiber center and the center of the receptacle;
• measuring an angular offset between the fixed point and the fiber center about the center of the receptacle;
• determining a rotation angle for the fiber distance and the angular offset from an angular correction table;
• and
• rotating the ferrule relative to the receptacle according to the rotation angle to align a launch diameter with the fixed point.