Fiber shuffle interconnection apparatus and method

Details Fiber shuffle interconnection apparatus and method Fiber shuffle interconnection apparatus and method

1998-08-04

2000-07-11

Ullah, Akm E.

Optical waveguides

With optical coupler

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359109, G02B 626

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060884932

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method is provided for optical cross connections. A guide structure is used to guide optical fiber fed to various stations on the guide structure which correspond to input and output ports of a fiber shuffle interconnect. Once the fiber has been positioned about the guide structure, the fiber is arranged such that the input and output ports of the interconnect align allowing the fibers to be bundled to a common input and/or output port. In this manner, once the fiber is arranged about the guide structure, fiber management becomes an easy task because the number of fiber bundles is significantly smaller than the total number of individual fibers.

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patent: 5165104 (1992-11-01), Weverka
patent: 5416861 (1995-05-01), Koh et al.

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