Underwater electro-optical connector including cable terminal un

Details Underwater electro-optical connector including cable terminal un Underwater electro-optical connector including cable terminal un

1984-06-21

1987-05-19

Lee, John

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339 60R, 339117R, 339 94R, 350 9620, G02B 638

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046662421

ABSTRACT:
An underwater electro-optical connector including male and female connector units, each having a longitudinal terminal socket for accepting the electro-optically conductive probe of a mating cable terminal unit. Each terminal socket has provision for forming electrical and optical connections with a terminal unit probe when the probe is inserted into it. Each probe has a central, electrically conductive tube which accepts a jacketed, buffered optical fiber and has a distal end. An optically conductive interface is provided on each probe distal end to provide an optical connection with the terminal socket into which the probe is inserted. Each probe is connected to an optical and one or more electrical conductors of a hybrid electro-optical cable. The cable terminal units mate with respective connector units, and the connector units are joined to provide, with the terminal units, an optical connection and one or more concentric elecrical connections between the terminated cables.

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U.S. Navy technical report entitled Coaxial Underwater Mateable Connectors, by J. V. Wilson, Sep. 1979, Report No. TR-875, 74 pages.

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