Design and performance of an angled physical contact type multifiber connector

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 542-548

  Kihara, Mitsuru ^a,b,d,e,f   Nagasawa, Shinji ^a,b,e,f,g   Tanifuji, Tadatoshi ^a,c,e,f,h,i  

^a IEEE

^b NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories

^c Tech R D Dept Tel Oper T   (Thailand)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^f Inst Electronics Info Commun E

^g CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ Tech R D Dept Tel Org Thailand

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL FIBERS;

FIBER RIBBON LASERS; MULTIFIBER CONNECTORS; OPTICAL SUBSCRIBER NETWORK;

ELECTRIC CONNECTORS;

EID: 0030126252     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.491391     Document Type: Article

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