Scalable Optical Fiber Wiring System for over 10,000-Fiber Shuffler

Yoshiteru ABE
Masaru KOBAYASHI
Mamoru HIRAYAMA
Ryo NAGASE

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E88-C    No.8    pp.1755-1763
Publication Date: 2005/08/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e88-c.8.1755
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Optoelectronics
Keyword: 
optical fiber,  optical fiber sheet,  optical fiber connector,  physical contact connector,  optical switches,  planar waveguides,  

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Summary: 
The increasing number of channels in dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems has led to the need for wiring involving a large number of optical fibers in the system racks. We have developed a novel scalable optical fiber wiring system designed to realize as many as 10,000-fiber shuffled interconnections without fiber congestion. We propose a scheme for constructing a large-scale shuffler capable of permuting interconnected fibers that employs plural optical fiber sheets, and for arranging optical fibers without congestion in racks. We constructed a 16,384-fiber shuffler system with sixty-four 256-fiber shuffler sheets and 16-fiber fiber physical contact (FPC) connectors for a 128128 switch system with 1128 planar lightwave circuit (PLC) type thermo-optic switches (TOSW). Input here the part of summary.