• DocumentCode
    1569375
  • Title

    Hole-assisted graded index plastic optical fiber with wow bending loss

  • Author

    Hiromasa, Toru ; Ishigure, Takaaki

  • Author_Institution
    Grad. Sch. of Sci. & Technol., Keio Univ., Yokohama
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    244
  • Lastpage
    245
  • Abstract
    We fabricate hole-assisted multimode graded index plastic optical fibers successfully for the first time. They exhibit much lower macro bending loss than GI POFs although they have the same refractive index profiles in their cores.
  • Keywords
    gradient index optics; optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre losses; refractive index; waveguide discontinuities; bending loss; graded index plastic optical fiber; hole-assisted fibers; refractive index profiles; Bandwidth; Optical fiber losses; Optical fibers; Optical interconnections; Optical losses; Optical waveguides; Plastics; Preforms; Propagation losses; Refractive index;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2008. LEOS 2008. 21st Annual Meeting of the
  • Conference_Location
    Acapulco
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1931-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1932-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2008.4688580
  • Filename
    4688580