Time Domain Modeling and Characterization of Polymer Optical Fibers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 455-457

  Louvros, Spiros ^a   Iossifides, Athanassios C ^b   Economou, George ^a   Karagiannidis, George K ^c   Kotsopoulos, Stavros A ^a   Zevgolis, Dimitris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b Cosmote SA ^*  (Greece)

^c NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chromatic dispersion; Differential mode attenuation; Modal dispersion; Polymer optical fibers (POFs)

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; FUNCTIONS; GLASS FIBERS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CHROMATIC DISPERSIONS; DIFFERENTIAL MODE ATTENUATION; MODAL DISPERSION; POLYMER OPTICAL FIBERS (POF);

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 1442288520     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.822228     Document Type: Article

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