Title :
Manufacture of perfluorinated plastic optical fibers
Author :
White, Whitney R. ; Blyler, Lee L., Jr. ; Ratnagiri, Ram ; Park, Miri
Author_Institution :
OFS Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We review manufacturing processes for graded-index polymer optical fiber (GI-POF). We also demonstrate a new extrusion process, which produces GI-POF at much lower cost, with attenuation below 25 dB/km, and bandwidth greater than 400 MHz-km.
Keywords :
extrusion; gradient index optics; optical fibre fabrication; optical polymers; polymer fibres; reviews; extrusion process; graded-index polymer optical fiber; perfluorinated plastic optical fibers manufacturing process; review;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2004. OFC 2004
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-772-5
