Abstract
This chapter presents an overview of the evolution of plastic optical fibers (POFs) in the last 20. years, reviewing the technical achievements on both fiber design and system architectures that today allow the use of POF for Gb/s data links. In particular, we present the different POF materials (such as PMMA, perfluorinated polymers, etc.), types (such as SI-POF, GI-POF), and production processes, describing the resulting optical characteristics in terms of attenuation, dispersion, and bandwidth. We also describe POF main applications in industrial automation, home networking, and LAN.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Optical Fiber Telecommunications |
| Subtitle of host publication | Components and Subsystems: Sixth Edition |
| Publisher | Elsevier Inc. |
| Pages | 353-376 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Volume | 5A |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780123972354 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780123969583 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 May 13 |
Keywords
- Attenuation
- Bandwidth
- Graded-index fibers
- High data rate links
- Home networking
- Plastic optical fibers
- Step-index fibers
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Engineering(all)