Which is a more serious factor to the bandwidth of GI POF: Differential mode attenuation or mode coupling?

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 959-965

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

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BANDWIDTH; DISPERSION (WAVES); GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

DIFFERENTIAL MODE ATTENUATION; GRADED INDEX POLYMER OPTICAL FIBERS (GIPOF); MODAL DISPERSION; MODE COUPLING; STEP INDEX POLYMER OPTICAL FIBERS (SI POF);

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

EID: 0034225841     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.850741     Document Type: Article

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