TY - CHAP
T1 - Plastic Optical Fibers and Gb/s Data Links
AU - Koike, Yasuhiro
AU - Gaudino, Roberto
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2013/5/13
Y1 - 2013/5/13
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Attenuation
KW - Bandwidth
KW - Graded-index fibers
KW - High data rate links
KW - Home networking
KW - Plastic optical fibers
KW - Step-index fibers
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U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-12-396958-3.00010-X
DO - 10.1016/B978-0-12-396958-3.00010-X
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84942010276
SN - 9780123969583
VL - 5A
SP - 353
EP - 376
BT - Optical Fiber Telecommunications
PB - Elsevier Inc.
ER -