Abstract

The potential of optical fibers as transmission media for optical communications systems has stimulated much work on the various problems which need to be overcome before a practical system can be built. One of these problems involves the development of techniques for connecting and splicing these fibers and fiber cables. Although several laboratory techniques for splicing fibers and groups of fibers with low splice losses have now been developed, they are all relatively complex techniques which require operations of high precision and are thus difficult to carry out in the field.

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