Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Sumitomo Metal Industries, Inc.

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations, Inc.

Tetsuya Nakanishi

Atsushi Inoue

Tetsuya Hayashi

Masaaki Hirano

Yuuichi Mitose

Takuji Nagashima

Hong Chuyen Nguyen

Tetsuya Haruna

Yasuomi Kaneuchi

Masashi Onishi

Tatsuya Konishi

Takuya Ishida

Jun Ito

Hajime Arao

Toshiki Taru

Hiroshi Miyano

Katsuyuki Aihara

Naoki Matsushita

Takeyuki Ishii

Fumiaki Satou

Toshiaki Okuno

Yoshiaki Tamura

Tomoyuki Yokokawa

Hiroshi Kohda

Kazuya Kuwahara

Nobuyuki Taira

Osamu Shimakawa

Dai Sasaki

Takuro Watanabe

Yuki Arao

Hirofumi Hori

Tsutaru Kumagai

Teruo Onozawa

Yoshimi Imoto

Eisuke Sasaoka

Shinji Ishikawa

Hiromi Kurashima

Takashi Fujii

Takemi Hasegawa

Tomomi Sano

Kazuhiro Shimoda

Tomio Yamakawa

Masayuki Kato

Hirokazu Okada

Yasuyoshi Hidaka

Itaru Sakabe

Takayuki Shimazu

Takashi Takada

Kuniyuki Ishii

Sumio Iida

Kazunari Hattori

Kumiko Tachibana

Tetsu Morishima

Mutsumi Tanida

Yoshiaki Shida

Yasushi Koyano

Naoya Hirase

Kouji Nakaike

Maki Ikeji

Hideaki Kamisugi

Kazuaki Negishi

Kenichi Saito

Kazumasa Makihara

Masahiko Matsui

Atsuhiko Kuroda

Shigemitsu Kimura

Kazuhiro Nakajima

Maki Ikechi

Junji Nakata

Hiroki Kawabata

An optical connector jig for connecting a second optical connector to a first optical connector, or disconnecting the second optical connector from the first optical connector, includes a first housing and a second housing. The first housing includes a positioning portion to determine a position of the jig with respect to the first optical connector in cooperation with a member indicating a position of the first optical connector. The second housing grips the second optical connector such that, when the jig is positioned with respect to the first optical connector, a connection surface of the second optical connector faces a connection surface of the first optical connector. The second housing moves with respect to the first housing such that the connection surface of the gripped second optical connector is close to or away from the connection surface of the first optical connector.

Optical connector jig, optical connector connection method, and optical connector disconnection method

A cable with a connector includes a plurality of multicore optical fibers and a plurality of connectors attached to ends of the plurality of multicore optical fibers. The connectors are multi-fiber connectors, and a core number density of each of the plurality of connectors is 2 cores/mmor more. The cable further includes a sheath that collectively covers the plurality of multicore optical fibers.

Cable with connector

An optical apparatus includes a light emitting apparatus and a host apparatus. The light emitting apparatus includes a housing extending in a first direction, a light emitting device mounted in the housing, an optical connector including a first optical connection part provided at one end of the housing, and an electrical connector including a first electrical connection part provided at one end of the housing and receiving a voltage to drive the light emitting device. The host apparatus includes a host optical connector including a second optical connection part which faces the first optical connection part and is optically coupled thereto, a host electrical connector including a second electrical connection part facing the first electrical connection part and being electrically connected to the first electrical connection part, and a host board mounting the host optical connector and the host electrical connector thereon. The light emitting apparatus is connected to the host apparatus in the optical apparatus.

Optical apparatus, light emitting apparatus, optical cable, and method of connecting optical apparatus

Connector for optical fiber cable

An optical fiber connection component is provided with: a glass plate that has a plurality of first through-holes; a resin ferule that has a plurality of second through-holes respectively coaxial to the first through-holes and that is fixed to the glass plate; and a plurality of optical fibers that is arranged on a surface of the resin ferrule. One or more glass fibers disposed within each of the plurality of optical fibers, a surface of each of the glass fibers being covered with a resin coating, and a portion of each of the glass fibers being exposed from a tip of each of the optical fibers. The exposed portion of each of the glass fibers is held in a corresponding one of the first through-holes and a corresponding one of the second through-holes.

Optical fiber connection component and optical fiber connection structure

The disclosure relates to an optical connection device reducing a connection loss between an SCF and an MCF. The optical connection device includes plural relay fibers and a capillary having third and fourth end faces. Each relay fiber includes a first core of Δ1, a second core of Δ2, and a cladding of Δ3. The capillary includes a tapered portion with an outer diameter ratio R of the fourth end face to the third end face of 0.2 or less. In each relay fiber, a value of Formula (V2−V1)/R falls within a range from 156% μmto 177% μm, V1 (% μm) is given by (π·r1)×(Δ1−Δ2) by using a radius r1(μm) of the first core, and V2 (% μm) is given by (π·r2)×(Δ1−Δ2) by using a radius r2(μm) of the second core.

Optical connection device

An MCF having a structure excellent in mass productivity and suppressing increases in splicing cost and loss are provided. The MCF includes 12 or 16 cores, a cladding, and a coating. The cores are arranged at positions of line symmetry while no adjacent relationship is established between the cores having an adjacent relationship with any core. A coating diameter is 235-265 &#x3bc;m, a cladding diameter CD is from CD&#x2212;1 &#x3bc;m to CD+1 &#x3bc;m with a nominal value CDof 195 &#x3bc;m or less, an MFD at 1310 nm is from MFD-reference-value &#x2212;0.4 &#x3bc;m to the MCF-reference-value+0.4 &#x3bc;m with the MFD-reference-value of 8.2-9.2 &#x3bc;m, and a 22 m-cable-cutoff wavelength &#x3bb;is 1260-1360 nm. A core's zero-dispersion wavelength is a wavelength-reference-value &#x2212;12 nm to the wavelength-reference-value+12 nm with the wavelength-reference-value of 1312-1340 nm, and a dispersion slope at the wavelength is 0.092 ps/(nm&#xb7;km) or less. A shortest distance from a cover-cladding interface to each core center, a structure, and optical characteristics satisfy predetermined conditions.

Multi-core optical fiber and multi-core optical fiber cable

An optical fiber connecting component includes a glass plate having a plurality of first through holes, a resin ferrule fixed to the glass plate and having a plurality of second through holes that are each coaxial with corresponding one of the plurality of first through holes, and a plurality of optical fibers including a glass fiber and a resin coating that covers the glass fiber. The glass fiber exposed from a tip of each of the optical fibers is held in corresponding one of the first through holes and corresponding one of the second through holes, and a material for the resin ferrule has a flexural modulus of 5 GPa or more at 200&#xb0; C.

An optical connection component includes a plurality of optical fibers and a capillary. Each of the optical fibers includes a glass fiber and a resin coating covering the glass fiber. Each of the optical fibers is provided with a coated portion where the glass fiber is covered with the resin coating, and a coating removed portion where the glass fiber is exposed from the resin coating. The coating removed portion is located closer to an end face of the optical fiber than the coated portion. The glass fiber has an outer diameter of less than 124 &#x3bc;m. The capillary has a first end face and a second end face opposing to each other, and a plurality of holes having an opening at the first end face and extending towards the second end face. The holes respectively receive the coating removed portions of the optical fibers.

Optical connection component

An MCF having a structure excellent in mass productivity and suppressing increases in splicing cost and loss are provided. The MCF includes 12 or 16 cores, a cladding, and a coating. The cores are arranged at positions of line symmetry while no adjacent relationship is established between the cores having an adjacent relationship with any core. A coating diameter is 235-265 &#x3bc;m, a cladding diameter CD is from CD&#x2212;1 &#x3bc;m to CD+1 &#x3bc;m with a nominal value CDof 195 &#x3bc;m or less, an MFD at 1310 nm is from MFD-reference-value&#x2212;0.4 &#x3bc;m to the MCF-reference-value+0.4 &#x3bc;m with the MFD-reference-value of 8.2-9.2 &#x3bc;m, and a 22 m-cable-cutoff wavelength &#x3bb;is 1260-1360 nm. A core's zero-dispersion wavelength is a wavelength-reference-value&#x2212;12 nm to the wavelength-reference-value+12 nm with the wavelength-reference-value of 1312-1340 nm, and a dispersion slope at the wavelength is 0.092 ps/(nm&#xb7;km) or less. A shortest distance from a cover-cladding interface to each core center, a structure, and optical characteristics satisfy predetermined conditions.

An optical connection component includes: a glass plate formed of a glass material capable of transmitting ultraviolet rays, the glass plate having a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and one or a plurality of first through holes penetrating from the first surface to the second surface; a resin ferrule fixed to the first surface of the glass plate and having one or a plurality of second through holes each having a central axis coaxial with the central axis of the one or a plurality of first through holes; and one or a plurality of optical fibers including a glass fiber and a resin coating covering the outer periphery of the glass fiber, wherein the glass fiber exposed from the resin coating at the tip end of each of the one or a plurality of optical fibers is received in the one or a plurality of first through holes and the one or a plurality of second through holes.

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Tetsuya Nakanishi