| 摘要 |
PURPOSE: To reduce the size of the light path switching device by switching and connecting a master optical fiber and a light path. CONSTITUTION: Plural multicore optical connectors 10 are arrayed and arranged longitudinally and laterally in two dimensions. A stage 6 is provided with a light path switching head 16 and a fiber switching mechanism 17. A switching and conveying mechanism 15 controls the movement of the stage 16 in the lateral direction, longitudinal direction, and forward and backward directions to convey and move the light path switching head 16 toward a specified multicore optical connector 10. On the top surface of the light path switching head 16, V grooves 20 are formed as many as the light paths of the multicore optical connector 10. The stage 16 is moved in the forward and backward directions to fit the fitting pin 21 in fitting pin holes 14. The fiber switching mechanism 17 moves the master optical fiber 7 in the array direction of the V grooves 20 to the position of the groove 20 of a specified light path 12 to be inspected in order and inserts it into its groove 20, and then connects each light path 12 to the master optical fiber 7, thereby inspecting the light path 12 by an OTDR connected to the side of the master optical fiber 7. |
