optical fiber connector

An optical fiber connector holds the fibers and aligns fibers for mating. It uses a mating adapter to mate the two connector ferrules that fits the securing mechanism of the connectors (bayonet, screw-on or snap-in ). The ferrule design is also useful as it can be used to connect directly to active devices like LEDs, VCSELs and detectors. During the development of fiber optic technology over the last 35 years, many companies and individuals have invented the "better mousetrap" - a fiber optic connector that was lower loss, lower cost, easier to terminate or solved some other perceived problem. Now, about 100 fiber optic connectors have been introduced to the marketplace, among them the leaders are ST, SC, FC and MT-RJ style connectors. Since the earliest days of fiber optics, orange, black or gray was multimode and yellow singlemode. However, the advent of metallic connectors like the FC and ST made color coding difficult, so colored boots were often used. The TIA 568 color code is used for connector bodies, such as Beige for multimode fiber, Blue for singlemode fiber, and Green for APC (angled) connectors.

optical fiber connector