Optical fiber junction devices

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Abstract of the Disclosure A pair of optical fiber terminating members or plugs each comprising a precision ground frusto-conical plastic body are inserted into a precision molded seating member having correspondingly shaped frusto-conical recesses, the recesses opposed and coaxial. A transmission path is formed between optical fibers terminated at the plugs. The cores of fibers terminated at the plugs are offset from the longitudinal axes of respective plugs. By relatively rotating the plugs about their longitudinal axes, light transmission between a fiber or fibers in one plug and a fiber or fibers in the other plug is varied. The device is implemented as a variable attenuator as a, …