PIN AND SOCKET TERMINUS ASSEMBLIES FOR TERMINATING OPTICAL CABLES

摘要

An optical cable assembly (211) includes an optical cable (212) having an end (232). The optical cable includes a plastic optical fiber (POF) (234) having a tip segment (236) that includes a tip surface (238). The optical cable assembly (220) also includes a socket terminus assembly that terminates the end of the optical cable and is configured to mate with a pin terminus assembly (422). The socket terminus assembly includes a terminus body (268) having a cable passage (274). At least a portion of the end of the optical cable extends within the cable passage such that the tip surface of the tip segment of the POF is configured to engage a mating POF (434) of the pin terminus assembly to optically couple the POF to the mating POF.