• DocumentCode
    3701066
  • Title

    Predicting insertion loss in multi-fiber multimode connectors

  • Author

    Aramais R. Zakharian;Esteban B. Marin;Christian Fiebig;Hieu V. Tran;Lisa Hepburn;Andrey Kobyakov

  • Author_Institution
    Science and Technology, Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY 14831, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We develop a comprehensive opto-mechanical model to accurately predict insertion loss (IL) in multi-fiber multimode physical contact connectors and study the effect of various misalignment types and launch conditions. Monte Carlo simulations show good agreement with measured IL.
  • Keywords
    "Connectors","Optical fibers","Force","Optical fiber networks","Optical losses"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341760
  • Filename
    7341760