Patent ID: 7077577

Claim:
An apparatus to accurately hold an optical fiber within a commercial fiber optic connector comprising: a first high precision slice having multiple holes of a first area and a first alignment opening; a second high precision slice having multiple holes of a second area and a second alignment opening; at least one alignment pin within both the first alignment opening and the second alignment opening; the holes of the first high precision slice being arranged relative to the first alignment opening so that, when the second high precision slice and the first high precision slice are juxtaposed with one another and the first alignment opening and the second alignment opening are aligned by at least one alignment pin, the holes of the first high precision slice and the holes of the second high precision slice will be immovably maintained at an offset relative to each other such that each juxtaposed pair of holes will define an opening having an area less than a smaller of the first area and second area and constrain an optical fiber within the opening.