Patent ID: 7729582

Claim:
A fibre optic cable including a plurality of optic fibres, wherein: the fibre optic cable has a first cable end and a second cable end, each optic fibre has a first fibre end and a second fibre end, the fibre optic cable has a first optical interface at the first cable end and a second optical interface at the second cable end, at least part of the optic fibres have a non-coherent mutual arrangement between the first and second cable ends, at the first cable end, a ratio of a cross sectional area of the first fibre ends to a cross-sectional area of spaces between the individual optic fibres has been increased by fusing at least part of the first fibre ends, the fused first fibre ends forming at least part of the first optical interface, the first optical interface has a determined first active surface area consisting of an integral piece of area and including the first fibre ends of a first group of optic fibres, each optic fibre whose first fibre end is located inside said first active surface area belonging to the first group of optic fibres, the second optical interface has a determined second active surface area consisting of an integral piece of area and including the second fibre ends of the first group of optic fibres, each optic fibre whose second fibre end is located inside said second active surface area belonging to the first group of optic fibres, and at the first cable end, the first fibre ends of a second group of optic fibres are located between the first active surface and an outline of the first cable end.