ACTIVE ALIGNED TUNED WEDGE TERMINATION (AATWT)

The ACTIVE ALIGNED TUNED WEDGE TERMINATION (AATWT), with fewer and lower tolerance parts, will achieve: Insertion loss<0.02 dB; Back Reflection<-60 As a MIL-PRF-64266 Terminus. providing dual references, 1st perpendicular to the collimated beam, 2nd the outer circumference of the terminus ensuring compatibility with existing multiple termini. Phase I of the AATWT will result in a set of engineering sketches and an analysis/models each of the elements, of the termination and their contribution to the back reflection and insertion loss to optimize an integrated fiber termination design. This design and analysis will fulfill the requirements of TRA 3 Phase I Option of the AATWT will provide a low fidelity breadboard of the termination to validate the models and demonstrate the performance of the AATWT as required in TRA 4. The AATWT design lends itself to arrayed connectors, circular and rectangular, with a, 4X higher fiber density (lower weight) than presently available. One of these designs is presented in the following technical proposal, with an adaptor to 64266 termini. The ACTIVE ALIGNED TUNED WEDGE TERMINATION design is compatible with connections for back plane and edge connection.