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OwnerTerrance J. Schmidt, Cuneyt Erdogan +1inventors
InventorsTerrance J. Schmidt, Cuneyt Erdogan, Alfred J. Cheswick
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An apparatus, integral to a polishing fixture, that enables a plurality of fiber optic connectors to be independently aligned to a polishing surface. Once inserted into the apparatus, a reference connector is positioned over an optical interferometer, whose focal plane is parallel with that of the polishing surface plane. The apparatus is then adjusted to the known interferometric geometry of the reference connector. This procedure is performed for each integral apparatus insuring that all consecutive connectors inserted into said apparatus are polished to the same interferometric geometry as that of the reference connector. The same apparatus also permits connector geometries to be measured by the interferometer while the connectors are mounted in the polishing fixture.
A polishing fixture and a method of alignment of said polishing fixture, comprising:
A polishing fixture, and a method of orienting a plurality of optical components residing in said polishing fixture with reference to a focal plane of an interferometric system and a polishing surface, comprising:
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