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The required packaging density has increased and it would be difficult to employ the conventional assembly technique to produce optical circuit boards with multi-fiber connectors. So we designed an MTPIPE (MT ferrules with Pre-Installed Pre-polished End fibers) connector that can be assembling easily and that does not need a polishing process. It is suitable for use with optical circuit boards and compatible with MT or MPO connectors. We propose MTPIPE which allows us to assemble optical fiber circuit boards easily, reliably and at low cost.
This paper describes how four-wave mixing (FWM) noise within multifiber linear-lightwave WDM ring networks is reduced due to their thin wavelength density. Preliminary numerical analysis for a full-mesh connection pattern shows that a simple wavelength insertion technique can improve FWM noise performance as high as about 10 dB.