Title :
Plastic optical fiber technology for telecommunications
Author_Institution :
Lucent Technol., Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.1998.657425
