Abstract :
A demountable fibre connector which uses two interlocking sets of three balls to locate the fibres accurately and simultaneously to align the two parts of the connector has been constructed. The samples tested so far, using Corning stepindex fibre, have shown average losses of less than 0.2 dB with index matching and less than 0.5 dB without. The connector is cheap, easy to make and could be assembled in the field.
