Patent ID: 7316513

Claim:
A method to be practiced during optical-fiber field installation, said method being for operatively coupling two optical-fibers through which light signals are transmitted, said method comprising: mechanically slicing in the field during installation, a raw end of one of said fibers at a pre-determined non-right angle relative to the longitudinal axis of said one of said fibers and at a pre-determined distance from the face of a connector-clamp holding said one of said fibers to obtain a first sliced end; mechanically pre-slicing prior to said installation in the field a raw end of the other of said two fibers at the complement of said pre-determined non-right angle relative to the longitudinal axis of said other of said two fibers to obtain a second pre-sliced end; holding said second pre-sliced end in a manner to form a receptacle for said first sliced end; and mechanically binding together in the field said first sliced end and said second pre-sliced end in a substantially coplanar and congruent interface which transmits therethrough substantially all of the energy associated with said light signals and reflects any of the energy not transmitted therethrough in a manner to avoid transmission back to the source of said light energy.