An apparatus and method that prevents a damaging movementin any planebetween fiber ends within a connector assembly, where a damaging movement is a movement of the fiber ends with the connector assembly which may give rise to a damaging thermal event while an optical power source is generating a high-optical-power-density...http://www.google.es/patents/US20030081905?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatente US20030081905 - Optical connector assembly