Patent ID: 6049646
Filing Date: 2000-04-11
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
A connecting device for an optical multicore fiber having a plurality of cores disposed in at least two planes, said connecting device including two substrates adapted to be superposed, each substrate having a groove of constant rectangular cross-section extending between two rectilinear walls on a part of a length of said substrate, the width of each groove being complementary to a given dimension of the fiber to be connected and the depth of which is complementary to half said dimension, so that when the two substrates are superposed, the two grooves provided respectively on the substrates are adapted to receive fully an end of said multicore fiber, each substrate comprising a planar optic with multiple guides so that said guides provided respectively on said two substrates are disposed in parallel planes and coincide in use with the cores of the multicore fiber provided in said grooves, and wherein each substrate has furthermore longitudinal shoulders at its longitudinal edges, said shoulders having coplanar tops coincident with the tops of said walls defining the groove for receiving the multicore fiber.