PROCESS FOR ALIGNING AN OPTICAL FIBRE IN A BORE, AND DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT THE PROCESS

摘要

The invention discloses a method and a device for removing the clearance between the outer diameter of an optical waveguide (1) and the diameter of an orifice (22) of a fastener (2) of guide of light waves. The proposed method consists not adapt to the peripheral field of the optical waveguide (1) to the outer contours of the guide according to the usual practice until now, but to adapt the guide (1) to the contours of the orifice (22). The operations necessary for this purpose include the heating of the guide (1) and its compression, the engagement of the compressed portion (11) of the guide (1) in the mounting (2), gluing of the guide (1) with an adhesive (7) in the orifice (22) and finally in a new operation, the grinding and polishing of the end face (12) of the guide and the end face (23) of the fastener (2) guide. The method preferably applies in all locations where the optical waveguide must be adjusted by heating and pressing the contour of a fixing optical waveguide.