• DocumentCode
    2835941
  • Title

    Plastic optical fiber technology for telecommunications

  • Author

    Blyler, L.L.

  • Author_Institution
    Lucent Technol., Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    22-27 Feb. 1998
  • Firstpage
    306
  • Lastpage
    307
  • Abstract
    Summary form only given. A newly emerging competitor for optical fibre communications is graded-index polymer optical fiber (GI-POF). The promise of GI-POF in both telecommunications and data communications rests on its potential to deliver performance and reliability at low overall systems cost. Recent breakthroughs have been in bandwidth and loss of plastic optical fibers.
  • Keywords
    gradient index optics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre losses; optical polymers; GRIN polymer fibre; data communications; graded-index polymer optical fiber; low overall systems cost; optical fibre communications; performance; plastic optical fiber loss; plastic optical fiber technology; reliability; telecommunications; Bandwidth; Copper; Costs; Glass; Light emitting diodes; Optical fiber devices; Optical fibers; Optical polymers; Plastics; Silicon compounds;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 1998. OFC '98., Technical Digest
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-521-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.1998.657425
  • Filename
    657425