MULTICORE OPTICAL CONNECTOR AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE CONNECTOR

摘要

The invention relates to a small-sized multiple-core optical connector having high reliability, which can be easily assembled and manufactured. A plurality of array guide grooves (22) are arrayed and formed on a flat substrate (21). The array pitch interval of the array guide grooves is roughly coincident with the outer diameter of bare optical fibers (4a), (4b). The first optical fiber tape (6a) and the second optical fiber tape (6b) are disposed at the rear end side of the flat substrate (21) so as to overlap each other, wherein the first bare optical fibers (4a) of the first optical fiber tape (6a) and the second bare optical fibers (4b) of the second optical fiber tape (6b) are alternately array-converted and accommodated in the array guide grooves (22). The bare optical fibers (4a), (4b) are pressed from the upside of the bare optical fibers (4a),(4b) at the tip end side of the array, and they are placed and fixed in the array guide grooves. A filter insertion groove (17) is formed in the direction crossing the corresponding array guide grooves (22) at an area where the array guide grooves (22) are formed, a filter (16) is inserted into the filter insertion groove (17), and the filter (16) is attached to each of the second bare optical fibers (4b) at the second optical fiber tape (6b) side. <IMAGE>