Large-Core, High-Bandwidth Polymer Optical Fiber for Near Infrared Use

Takaaki Ishigure; Eisuke Nihei; Yasuhiro Koike; Charles E. Forbes; Leslie La Nieve; Rich Straff; Hellmuth A. Deckers

doi:10.1109/68.376816

Large-Core, High-Bandwidth Polymer Optical Fiber for Near Infrared Use

Takaaki Ishigure, Eisuke Nihei, Yasuhiro Koike, Charles E. Forbes, Leslie La Nieve, Rich Straff, Hellmuth A. Deckers

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High bandwidth (more than 500 MHz·km) graded-index polymer optical fiber (GI POF) for near infra-red use was successfully fabricated by using partially fluorinated acrylate polymer. Since only three carbon-hydrogen bonds exist in a monomer unit, an absorption loss due to the stretching vibration of the carbon-hydrogen bond was remarkably reduced compared with the conventional POF's. The attenuation of the GI POF at 780-nm wavelength was 135 dB/km, which is much lower than that of the PMMA core POF (800 dB/km). The fluorinated polymer-based GI POF is satisfying a significant segment of high-speed multimedia network applications.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	403-405
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	7
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/68.376816
Publication status	Published - 1995 Apr

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