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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2016
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Eric Y. Chan, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Dennis G. Koshinz, Bellevue, WA (US);
Tuong K. Truong, Redmond, WA (US);
Henry B. Pang, Mercer Island, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
An optical network having at least one star coupler comprising transmit and receive optical mixers which are respectively optically coupled to transmitters and receivers of a plurality of optical-electrical media converters. Each optical-electrical media converter comprises a respective receiver optically coupled to the receive optical mixer by way of plastic optical fibers and a respective transmitter optically coupled to the transmit optical mixer by way of plastic optical fibers. The output plastic optical fibers attached to an output face of the receive optical mixer have a diameter less than the diameter of the input plastic optical fibers attached to an input face of the receive optical mixer.