Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation

Yasuyaki Kato

Toshiaki Kakii

Yuichi Toda

Yuichi Usui

Norio Kashima

Mitsuaki Osanai

An apparatus for aligning the centers of the cores of two optical fibers prior to their being fused together for splicing. A pair of supporting members are provided, each of which has a V-shaped recess in which an end of a respective one of the optical fibers is fixed. The supporting members are movable relative to one another in a direction substantially perpendicular to the axial direction of the optical fibers. A transparent light conducting member forms a bottom portion of the recess of at least one of the supporting members. A photodetector is optically coupled to the light conducting member.

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Mito, Japan

Yasuyaki Kato