EQUIPMENT FOR DISTRIBUTING AND CONNECTING OPTICAL FIBERS

摘要

An optical fiber distributing and connecting equipment is in the form of a box in which first optical fibers fanned-out from first cables are connected to second optical fibers fanned-out from second cables by means of fiber-to-fiber connectors. In order to achieve easy mixing of the second fibers while ensuring that their lengths remain substantially equal, the connectors are laid out in a circular region. This region includes one or more circular, coaxial and possibly stacked slides, on which the connectors are slidably mounted. Ends of the first fibers are inserted in first ends of the connectors located on the outer edge of the slides , and the ends of the second fibers are deployed radially from the central axis of the slides and inserted in the second ends of the connectors located on the inner edge of the slides. A central hole in a disk coaxial with the slides groups together the second fibers close to the central axis of the slides. Holes spread around the periphery of the disk group the first fibers into bundles around the central axis.