Bandwidth and transmission distance achieved by POF

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E82-B, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1287-1294

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

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Graded index plastic optical fiber; Material dispersion; Modal dispersion; Mode dependent attenuation; Perfluorinated polymer; Scattering loss

Indexed keywords

GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL FIBERS; POLYMERIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

PERFLUORINATED POLYMERS; PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS (POF); SCATTERING LOSS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0032596339     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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