EXPANDED BEAM FIBER OPTIC CONNECTION SYSTEM

An expanded beam fiber optic connection system is disclosed which overcomes the problems associated with known expanded beam fiber optic connection systems. In particular, the expanded beam fiber optic connection system in accordance with the present invention includes a pair of mating fiber optic c...

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Hauptverfasser:	NOLL, GREGORY, B, DOSHI, MONISH, J, ARMANI, DENIZ, K, SMITH, JONATHON, M
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng ; fre ; ger
Schlagworte:	BEER BIOCHEMISTRY CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE CHEMISTRY COMPOSITIONS THEREOF CULTURE MEDIA ENZYMOLOGY INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES MEASURING METALLURGY MICROBIOLOGY MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS OPTICS PERFORMING OPERATIONS PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL PHYSICS PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS SPIRITS TESTING TRANSPORTING VINEGAR WINE
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Zusammenfassung:	An expanded beam fiber optic connection system is disclosed which overcomes the problems associated with known expanded beam fiber optic connection systems. In particular, the expanded beam fiber optic connection system in accordance with the present invention includes a pair of mating fiber optic connectors. Each fiber optic connector includes a connector body and fiber optic termini. In accordance with an important aspect of the invention, the fiber optic termini utilize expanded beam technology and are configured with virtually the same form factor as existing physical contact fiber optic termini. The configuration of the expanded beam termini provides several benefits. First, existing physical contact fiber optic connection systems can be updated in the field by simply replacing the existing physical contact fiber optic termini with the new expanded beam fiber optic termini in accordance with the present invention and re-using the existing connector body, thus significantly reducing cost of upgrading existing physical contact type fiber optic connection systems. Secondly, since the same connector bodies are used for both the physical contact termini and the expanded beam termini, the number of components for the two types of fiber optic connection systems is reduced, thus reducing manufacturing costs.