Fiber Optic Connectors Having Diamond-Like Carbon Thin Film Coated Optical Fibers
AssigneeOptical Cable Corporation
InventorTeddy W. Leonard
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Abstract
A fiber optic connector contains a housing on which either a male or a female ferrule is mounted. A cable entering from one end of the fiber optic connector is spliced into multiple optical fibers. The tips of the optical fibers are coated with diamond-like carbon (DLC) thin films which are transparent for signal transmission within a wavelength range from 820 nm to 1625 nm. Two fiber optic connectors can be connected by intermating the male and the female ferrules, in which the two corresponding optical fibers are aligned with or without physical contact.
Claims10
A fiber optic connector having diamond-like carbon (DLC) thin film coated optical fibers, the fiber optic connector comprising:
- a housing on which a connector half is mounted on a first end of the housing;
- a cable entering from a second end of the housing and the cable being spliced into a plurality of optical fibers, each of the plurality of optical fibers having a tip;
- the tip of each of the plurality of optical fibers being coated with a DLC thin film;
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- wherein the plurality of the DLC thin film coated optical fibers is structured and disposed for signal transmission with physical contact when connecting with a corresponding connector.
A fiber optic connector having diamond-like carbon (DLC) thin film coated optical fibers, the fiber optic connector comprising:
- a housing on which a connector half is mounted on a first end of the housing;
- a cable entering from a second end of the housing and the cable being spliced into a plurality of optical fibers, each of the plurality of optical fibers having a tip;
- the tip of each of the plurality of optical fibers being coated with a DLC thin film;
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- wherein the plurality of the DLC thin film coated optical fibers is structured and disposed for signal transmission without physical contact when connecting with a corresponding connector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.