Fabrication process and optical properties of perdeuterated graded-index polymer optical fiber

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2443-2448

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

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Low attenuation; Perdeuterated methyl metacrylate; Plastic optical fiber; Two step interfacial gel polymerization process

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASTICS; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES;

PERDEUTERATED METHYL METACRYLATE; PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBER; TWO-STEP INTERFACIAL-GEL POLYMERIZATION;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 24744433919     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.852021     Document Type: Article

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