M. Takaya et al., DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF A MINIATURIZED MPO TYPE CONNECTOR FOR HIGH-DENSITY OPTICAL DUPLEX CONNECTION, IEEE photonics technology letters, 10(1), 1998, pp. 102-104
A miniaturized MPO type connector has been constructed employing a com
pact two-fiber ferrule for high-density optical duplex connection. The
connector has a high packaging density of 2.8 fibers/cm(2). Fabricate
d miniaturized MPO type connectors for two-fiber ribbons exhibit a low
insertion loss of 0.12 dB and 0.01 dB for single-and multimode fibers
, respectively, and a high return loss of more than 50 dB.