Optical waveguides – With disengagable mechanical connector – Optical fiber to a nonfiber optical device connector
Patent
1995-05-03
1999-12-21
Bovernick, Rodney B.
Optical waveguides
With disengagable mechanical connector
Optical fiber to a nonfiber optical device connector
385 92, 385 89, G02B 626
Patent
active
060040440
ABSTRACT:
An optoelectric connector (12, FIG. 2) is described, which has an outer end (96) constructed to efficiently couple to an optical fiber connector (14) and which has an inner end (47) with electrical contacts (46) for passing currents representing modulated light received or transmitted to an optical cable (20) attached to the optical connector. The optoelectric connector (12) includes a stub (80) or short length of optical fiber with an outer end (82) held at a coupling that couples to the optical fiber (24) of the cable in the same manner as a pair of long optical fibers are connected to minimize losses. The stub has an inner end (84) optically coupled to the optic face (42) of a photoelectric transducer (40) which is coupled to an electrical contact (46). The outer end (82) of the stub is preferably movable slightly to enable facewise contact with the end of a mating optical cable fiber (24), and the stub has a middle (102) that extends in a curve to enable its outer end to move slightly while its inner end remains fixed in position.
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Paulus Eric James
Zehrung Scott Allen
Bovernick Rodney B.
ITT Cannon, Inc.
Peterson Thomas L.
Song Yisun
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