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Hitoshi YANAGIURA Hideo KOBAYASHI Junichi TAKAGI Nobuo TOMITA
This letter proposes a cylindrical accommodation block consisting of a number of plastic sheets placed radially. The basic structural design of the block has been made, and it is found that more than 1000-fiber splices, i.e. mass-splices of 200 fiber ribbons can be accommodated with the same size as the existing metallic cable joints.
Junichi TAKAGI Hitoshi YANAGIURA Hideo KOBAYASHI Nobuo TOMITA
This letter proposes a new type of the slack fiber accommodation block composed of book-shaped plastic sheets. The block, capable of accommodating 800-fiber splices, exhibits good transmission characteristics with an average slack fiber accommodation loss of 0.33 dB, which is smaller by 25% than the value attained for the previous type accommodation block.