EP2183627A1 - Connecteur enfichable à fibre optique muni d'un dispositif élargisseur de faisceau - Google Patents

Connecteur enfichable à fibre optique muni d'un dispositif élargisseur de faisceau

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EP2183627A1
EP2183627A1 EP08801621A EP08801621A EP2183627A1 EP 2183627 A1 EP2183627 A1 EP 2183627A1 EP 08801621 A EP08801621 A EP 08801621A EP 08801621 A EP08801621 A EP 08801621A EP 2183627 A1 EP2183627 A1 EP 2183627A1
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optical
holding block
optical connector
fiber
insert
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Roger KRÄHENBÜHL
Thomas Ammer
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Huber and Suhner AG
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/36—Mechanical coupling means
    • G02B6/38—Mechanical coupling means having fibre to fibre mating means
    • G02B6/3807—Dismountable connectors, i.e. comprising plugs
    • G02B6/3873—Connectors using guide surfaces for aligning ferrule ends, e.g. tubes, sleeves, V-grooves, rods, pins, balls
    • G02B6/3885—Multicore or multichannel optical connectors, i.e. one single ferrule containing more than one fibre, e.g. ribbon type
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/25—Preparing the ends of light guides for coupling, e.g. cutting
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/26—Optical coupling means
    • G02B6/32—Optical coupling means having lens focusing means positioned between opposed fibre ends
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/36—Mechanical coupling means
    • G02B6/3628—Mechanical coupling means for mounting fibres to supporting carriers
    • G02B6/3632—Mechanical coupling means for mounting fibres to supporting carriers characterised by the cross-sectional shape of the mechanical coupling means
    • G02B6/3644—Mechanical coupling means for mounting fibres to supporting carriers characterised by the cross-sectional shape of the mechanical coupling means the coupling means being through-holes or wall apertures
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/36—Mechanical coupling means
    • G02B6/3628—Mechanical coupling means for mounting fibres to supporting carriers
    • G02B6/3648—Supporting carriers of a microbench type, i.e. with micromachined additional mechanical structures
    • G02B6/3652—Supporting carriers of a microbench type, i.e. with micromachined additional mechanical structures the additional structures being prepositioning mounting areas, allowing only movement in one dimension, e.g. grooves, trenches or vias in the microbench surface, i.e. self aligning supporting carriers
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/36—Mechanical coupling means
    • G02B6/3628—Mechanical coupling means for mounting fibres to supporting carriers
    • G02B6/3664—2D cross sectional arrangements of the fibres
    • G02B6/3672—2D cross sectional arrangements of the fibres with fibres arranged in a regular matrix array
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/36—Mechanical coupling means
    • G02B6/38—Mechanical coupling means having fibre to fibre mating means
    • G02B6/3807—Dismountable connectors, i.e. comprising plugs
    • G02B6/3873—Connectors using guide surfaces for aligning ferrule ends, e.g. tubes, sleeves, V-grooves, rods, pins, balls
    • G02B6/3882—Connectors using guide surfaces for aligning ferrule ends, e.g. tubes, sleeves, V-grooves, rods, pins, balls using rods, pins or balls to align a pair of ferrule ends

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  • the present invention relates to the field of optical communications. It relates to an optical connector according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Optical fiber networks are increasingly used in all areas for data transmission because of their wide bandwidth and the insensitivity to electromagnetic interference.
  • connectors which are arranged at the cable or wire ends and safely couple in the inserted state emerging from the fiber ends of a connector side light signals in the fiber ends of the other connector side.
  • Such connector systems require direct contact between the end faces of the ferrules fixed in the individual fibers, which requires precise processing of the ferrules flush with the fiber ends by various grinding processes and precise orientation of the fiber ends when installed in the connector and the mutual alignment in the inserted state.
  • optical means such as lenses in connector systems at the fiber ends in order to expand and parallelize the beams coming from the fiber ends and thereby reduce the requirements for the mutual alignment of the fibers to be connected.
  • Such connector systems are known for single fibers, for example, from US-A-5,768,458 or for several fibers from JP-A-2007041222. Instead of lenses and specially shaped mirror elements can be used (DE-Al -100 43 985).
  • Essential for the optical connector according to the invention is an insert in which the wires of a cable to be connected are inserted on a first side and in which the wires terminate with their optical fibers.
  • This insert has, on a second side, a widening device on which the jets emerge widened out of the fibers.
  • the insert comprises two separate, composable sub-elements, one of which is designed as a widening device and the other as a holding block for receiving the ends of the wires. This advantageously makes it possible to process the fiber ends with comparatively few restrictions when the wire ends have already been picked up by the holding block.
  • the holding block and the expansion device are formed and adapted to each other, that in the composite insert, the fibers of the wire end received by the holding block with a fiber portion of predetermined length out of the holding block and project into the expansion device.
  • the fiber ends are freely accessible and can be processed with a laser process precisely and quickly.
  • the wire ends can be accommodated in a particularly simple manner if the holding block has, for each of the wire ends, a wire bore extending from the first side into the holding block, which passes via a subsequent insertion cone into a fiber hole ending on the opposite side of the holding block.
  • connection density if the core holes or fiber bores are arranged parallel to each other and in several rows one above the other in the holding block.
  • a checkerboard-like or a densest-packed arrangement or other suitable arrangement of the holes can be provided.
  • Lenses or ball lenses or CRIN lenses or comprise reflective optical elements, in particular in the form of mirrors or parabolic mirrors.
  • the second means comprise Justierbohronneus or V-grooves.
  • Another embodiment is characterized in that the end faces of the protruding from the holding block fiber sections are laser-processed, for which purpose preferably a known as laser cleaving process is used.
  • the insert is installed in a housing.
  • the optical fibers are exposed over a predetermined length in a first step to the wire ends belonging to the connector before the wire ends with the exposed fibers are introduced into the holding block and fixed there in a second step such that the exposed fibers respectively protrude with a fiber portion of the holding block, in a third step, the protruding fiber portions are processed by a laser cleaving process, in a fourth step, the holding block with the wire ends received therein is assembled with an expansion device provided to an insert, and finally the insert is installed in a housing.
  • a preferred embodiment of the method according to the invention is characterized in that a widening device is used, which comprises optical means for widening the rays emerging from the wires, and that the exposed fiber sections are adjusted in the assembly of the holding block and the widening device with respect to the optical means ,
  • the inventive optical connector system comprises two matched optical connectors, which can be detachably connected to each other, wherein the two connectors are designed according to the invention.
  • the inserts of the two connectors are formed identically. Furthermore, it is advantageous if the inserts of the two plugged connectors are aligned with respect to the optical axes and spaced from each other.
  • the connectors can be latched together by a screw connection or a bayonet fitting or by a resilient snap lock, wherein preferably the plug connectors can be locked together in a sealing manner.
  • FIG. 1-4 in different views an embodiment of an insert according to the invention
  • Fig. 5 shows the arrangement of two inserts according to Fig. 1-4 within a connector rsyste ms
  • FIGS. 1-4 are perspective exploded views of the various sub-elements of the insert according to FIGS. 1-4
  • Fig. 7 shows the holding block of the insert of FIG. 14 with the protruding
  • FIG 8a shows an alternative embodiment of Figure 6 alternative expansion device with parabolic mirrors and V-grooves.
  • FIG. 8b shows a longitudinal section through an insert with the expansion device according to FIG. 8a
  • FIG. 9a shows an exemplary embodiment comparable to FIG. 8 with only one mirror per insert or connector
  • FIG. 10 shows a longitudinal section through an insert with an alternative to FIG. 8
  • FIG. 1 1 in a highly schematic representation of the exemplary installation of the
  • FIG. 1 2 in a highly schematic representation of a connector system with two mated connectors according to FIG. 1 1;
  • Fig. 1 3 different steps in the manufacture of a connector according to the
  • Fig. 1 1 shows a highly schematic representation of a connector 1 10 according to an embodiment of the invention.
  • a connector 1 10 Within the connector 1 10 ends a plurality of optical wires 1 1 5 in a built-in a housing 1 1 1 insert 1 12, which is constructed according to FIGS. 1-7.
  • two connectors 1 10 and 1 10 1 of the same kind are plugged together by way of example, with their inserts 1 1 2, 1 1 2 'according to FIG. 5 in the optical axes 1 36 are aligned and have a distance a from each other over which the two inserts 1 1 2, 1 1 2 'exchange rays.
  • the insert comprises 1 1 2 in this embodiment, a plurality of sub-elements, namely a holding block 1 1 3, an adjusting device 1 17 and an optical expansion block 1 18.
  • the adjusting device 1 17 and the optical expansion block 1 18 together form a widening device 1 14 (Fig. 1-4), which has the task of emerging from the wire ends 1 1 5 rays for Einkopp - widen development in the complementary connector.
  • the holding block 1 13 receives the ends of the wires 1 1 5 with the exposed on a stretch of fibers 1 19 and fixes them mechanically.
  • the adjusting device 1 17 in this embodiment a plate of constant thickness, which has at the corresponding bores 123 holes Justierbohronne 1 24 in the form of precise microbores in which the fibers 1 19, which protrude with fiber sections 1 20 from the holding block 1 13 ( see Fig. 7) are precisely guided with these fiber sections 120.
  • the expansion block 1 18 in this example is a one-piece block of glass or other transparent material, on one outer side of which jet-expanding optical elements in the form of convex lenses 1 16 are formed, which form a bores 121, 1 23 and 124 corresponding double-row arrangement and in composite insert 1 13 correspond to the adjustment holes 124 with respect to the optical axis.
  • the expansion block 1 18 can also be combined with the adjusting device 1 17 to a micromechanically processed unit.
  • the fibers 1 19 are first exposed to a certain length at the individual wires 1 1 5.
  • the wire ends 1 15 with the exposed fibers 1 19 are then inserted into the corresponding holes 121, 1 23 in the holding block 1 13, until the configuration shown in FIG. 7 results, in which the fibers 1 19 with fiber sections 120 protrude freely from the opposite side of the holding block 1 13.
  • the Ein foundedkonusse 122 facilitate the insertion of the fibers 1 19 in the fiber bores 1 23.
  • the protruding from the fiber bores 1 23 fiber sections 120 are now freely accessible for processing, preferably a laser processing (laser cleaving) with a laser beam coming from a laser 1 34 135, in which the length of the fiber portion 1 20 and the end face of the fiber are processed optically precise.
  • laser processing laser cleaving
  • Details of the process of laser cleaving can be found in the following publication: Ammer, T .; Strasser, MM; Studer, H .; Zaina, P .; Compare, C 1 Novel small form factor optical ribbon fiber connector for singlemode applications, Fibers and Optical Passive Components, 2005. Proceedings of 2005 IEEE / LEOS Workshop on, 22-24 June 2005 Page (s): 339-344.
  • FIG. 8 a shows a widening device 1 25 in which the beam coming from the fiber 1 19 is deflected twice over two reflective elements in the form of parabolic mirrors 1 29, 130 and thereby widened.
  • the expansion Device 125 is composed of a separate upper part 126 and a separate lower part 1 27, in each of which one of the parabolic mirrors 1 29, 130 is arranged.
  • V-grooves 1 28 are provided to the pairs of mirrors 129, 1 30 side by side, which adjust in cooperation with the attached upper part 1 26, the inserted fiber sections by clamping and thus form an integrated adjusting device.
  • the insert 132 shown schematically in FIG. 8b thus results.
  • FIG. 9 An exemplary embodiment comparable to FIG. 8 is reproduced in FIG. 9, wherein the partial figure 9a shows the arrangement in the unplugged condition, and the partial figure 9b shows the arrangement in the inserted state.
  • the mutually complementary inserts 138, 138 'each have a widening device 139 or 1 39', which only requires a reflective element in the form of a mirror 137 or 1 37 '.
  • the optical coupling between the two inserts 1 38, 138 'in the inserted state (Fig. 9b) is perpendicular to the optical axis of the two optical fibers 1 19. Due to the special design of the expansion devices 1 39, 1 39', it is possible with only an injection molded part (for the expansion device 139, 1 39 ') to get along that can be used on both sides of the connector.
  • FIG. 10 shows a further embodiment of a widening device 131, which together with the holding block 1 1 3 forms the insert 142.
  • the expansion device 131 contains for expanding the beam in each case a ball lens 1 33, which lies with the ball center point in the optical axis of the associated fiber 1 19.
  • a ball lens 1 33 which lies with the ball center point in the optical axis of the associated fiber 1 19.
  • other types of beam expansion elements are also possible, such as, for example, cylindrical lenses with gradient index (CRIN) or the like.
  • the invention results in an optical connector, which is characterized by the following advantages: • No spacer is needed in the connector.

Abstract

L'invention concerne un connecteur optique enfichable permettant de connecter, de façon amovible, une pluralité de fils optiques (115), lequel connecteur comprend une pièce d'insertion (112, 112'), dans laquelle les fils (115) sont insérés sur un premier côté, les fils (115) aboutissant dans la pièce par leurs fibres optiques (119, 120) et ladite pièce présentant, sur un second côté, un dispositif élargisseur (117, 118), au niveau duquel les faisceaux sortent des fibres (119, 120) sous forme élargie. L'invention vise à simplifier la construction et le montage dudit connecteur. A cet effet, la pièce d'insertion (112, 112') est composée de deux éléments séparés (113; 117, 118) pouvant être assemblés, l'un étant réalisé sous forme de dispositif élargisseur (117, 118) et l'autre sous forme de bloc de retenue (113) destiné à recevoir les extrémités des fils (115).
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