Design and prototyping of self-centering optical single-mode fiber alignment structures Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The European Commission's goal of providing each European household with at least a 30 Mb s(-1) Internet connection by 2020 would be facilitated by a widespread deployment of fibre-to-the-home, which would in turn be sped up by the development of connector essential components, such as high-precision alignment features. Currently, the performance of state-of-the-art physical contact optical fiber connectors is limited by the tolerance on the ...