Mode Coupling in Plastic Optical Fiber Enables 40-Gb/s Performance

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 1254-1256

  Polley, Arup ^a   Ralph, Stephen E ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical fiber communication

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EID: 85008030115     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.901743     Document Type: Article

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