Abstract
The large bandwidth and small physical cross-section of optical fibers can be exploited by using individual fibers as isolated transmission media with separate sources and detectors. The price paid in giving up the fiber bundle concept is more stringent splicing requirements and the loss of redundancy, i.e. broken fibers mean lost channels, not just a reduction of signal to noise ratio. Therefore to take advantage of the single source--single fiber concept, fiber handling and packaging methods must be devised which provide the required physical protection and which ease the splicing problem. That is, splicing considerations need to be made an integral part of the optical cable design problem.
© 1975 Optical Society of America
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