Optical characteristics and reliability of plastic ferrules for MU-type simplified receptacles

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E87-C, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1302-1306

  Shuto, Yoshito ^a   Tohno, Shunichi ^a   Yanagi, Shuichi ^a   Ohno, Masayoshi ^a   Nagase, Ryo ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ferrule; Injection molding; Liquid crystalline polymer; Optical connector

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); DURABILITY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; INJECTION MOLDING; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; RELIABILITY; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

COUPLING PHENOMENA; FERRULES; FIBER TERMINATION MODULES (FTM); OPTICAL CONNECTORS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 4344591887     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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