Multigroove embossed-plastic splice connector for joining groups of optical fibers
- 1 December 1975
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 14 (12) , 3026-3030
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.14.003026
Abstract
To install and maintain successfully an optical fiber communications system, techniques for splicing individual and groups of optical fibers under field conditions must be developed. In this paper a technique for splicing groups of optical fibers with a one piece multigroove embossed plastic connector is described. Using 132-μm multimode fibers with 94-μm core diameters, the average transmission loss of the splice joints measured was 0.12 dB with a standard deviation of 0.11 dB and a range of loss values from 0.0 dB to 0.53 dB.Keywords
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