Method of producing apparatus comprising a low-reflection optical fiber connection
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Date
1991-09-17
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Authors
Blonder, Greg
Johnson, Bertrand H.
Paola, Carl R.
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Citation
Greg Blonder, Bertrand H Johnson, Carl R Paola. "Method of producing apparatus comprising a low-reflection optical fiber connection." U.S. Patent 5,048,908-A.
Abstract
It has been discovered that tilted optical fiber endfaces useful in low-reflection optical fiber joints can be produced by cleaving, provided the fiber is twisted through an appropriate twist angle. By way of example, for a particular, commercially available single mode fiber, the normalized twist angle typically is in the range of 5-15 degrees/cm, resulting in a nominal tilt angle of the fiber endface in the approximate range 5-20 degrees.