Fibre network for optoelectronic transmission of data between subscriber stations

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A fibre network is disclosed for the optoelectronic transmission data between and among a plurality of subscriber stations, each station having a transmitter and a receiver. A specific address code is allocated to each transmitter and its associated receiver, and the information content of the individual subscriber stations is sample cyclically by a common addressing unit. The fibre network has n junction points, whereby n?1, and the individual fibre conductors lead from these junction points to the connected subscriber stations, in which the junction points contain passive coupling elements in the form of a solid light-conducting, core having opposing end faces. The fibres leading from the …