Modal bandwidth enhancement in a plastic optical fiber by W-refractive index profile

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1754-1762

  Ishigure, Takaaki ^a,b   Endo, Hideki ^c   Ohdoko, Kunihiro ^a,b   Takahashi, Keita ^a,b   Koike, Yasuhiro ^a,b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Differential mode attenuation; Modal dispersion; Mode coupling; Plastic optical fiber (POF); W shaped index profile

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BANDWIDTH; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DISPERSION (WAVES); GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL LINKS; PLASTICS APPLICATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA;

DIFFERENTIAL MODE ATTENUATION; MODAL BANDWIDTH ENHANCEMENT; MODAL DISPERSION; MODE COUPLING; PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBER (POF); REFRACTIVE INDEX PROFILE; W-SHAPED INDEX PROFILE;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 18944379165     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.844203     Document Type: Article

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