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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2022
Filed:
May. 17, 2021
Corning Research & Development Corporation, Corning, NY (US);
Douglas Llewellyn Butler, Painted Post, NY (US);
James Scott Sutherland, Painted Post, NY (US);
Aramais Robert Zakharian, Painted Post, NY (US);
Corning Research & Development Corporation, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
A passively aligned fan-out apparatus for a multicore fiber (MCF) includes a fan-out assembly that comprises a fan-out substrate, small-clad fibers (SCFs) supported in SCF V-grooves of the fan-out substrate, and alignment rods disposed outboard alignment V-grooves of the fan-out substrate. The SCFs have a distal-end pitch PD at a distal end of the fan-out substrate greater than the proximal-end pitch PP of the SCFs at a proximal end of the fan-out substrate. An MCF assembly and/or single mode fiber (SMF) assembly may also be provided as part of the fan-out apparatus.