High-bandwidth, graded-index polymer optical fiber for near-infrared use

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 36, 1996, Pages 7085-7090

  Nihei, Eisuke ^a   Ishigure, Takaaki ^b   Koike, Yasuhiro ^a,b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Graded index; High bandwidth; Low absorption loss; Polymer optical fiber

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001127216     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.007085     Document Type: Article

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