Patent ID: 7133589

Claim:
A tape-like fiber cable comprising: a plurality of optical fibers arranged in parallel to each other and each abutted to an adjacent fiber, each of the optical fibers including a cover and a lead extending from the cover, the extending portion of the lead comprising a single mode optical fiber, adjacent to the cover, having a terminal face and a graded index optical fiber fused to the terminal face of the single mode optical fiber; a terminal face of the respective lead being formed as an inclined surface which is inclined with respect to a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the lead; a plane of this tape-like fiber cable and the respective terminal faces of the leads perpendicularly intersect with respect to each other and an intersection between the plane of this tape-like fiber cable and the terminal face is inclined by an angle θ with respect to the optical axis of the lead wherein said leads all have a substantially equal length.