Title :
Passive components for plastic optical fibre transmission links
Author :
Keene, I.W. ; Selli, R.K.
Author_Institution :
BICC Syst. Dev. Centre, Hemel Hempstead, UK
Abstract :
The authors demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of plastic fibre for 10 Mb/s CSMA/CD applications and look at the potential advantages of plastic optical fibre as a transmission medium within LAN. A practical plastic optical fibre Ethernet link is described
Keywords :
carrier sense multiple access; data communication equipment; local area networks; optical fibres; optical links; polymer fibres; CSMA/CD; Ethernet link; LAN; passive components; plastic optical fibre transmission links;
Conference_Titel :
Plastics Materials for Optical Transmission, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
