Modal Bandwidth Enhancement of Plastic Optical Fibers by W-shaped Index Profile and Low-dispersion Fluorinated Polymer

Author

Ishigure, Takaaki ; Koike, Yasuhiro

Author_Institution

Fac. of Sci. & Technol., Keio Univ., Yokohama

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

635

Lastpage

636

Abstract

We have proposed a high-bandwidth graded-index (GI) POF that has a quadratic refractive index profile in the core region. Modal bandwidth enhancement in POF is achieved experimentally by two approaches: designing a new index profile, W-shaped profile and employing a fluorinated polymer with low material dispersion. We investigated the bandwidth performances of W-shaped POFs with different index profiles, then verified that the index valley in W-shaped index profile affects the group delay of higher-order modes particularly. Using a fluorinated polymer with low material dispersion, the highest bandwidth would be achieved by the W-shaped index profile

Keywords

gradient index optics; optical fibres; optical polymers; refractive index; W-shaped index profile; graded-index POF; group delay; low-dispersion fluorinated polymer; modal bandwidth enhancement; plastic optical fiber; Bandwidth; Delay; Ethernet networks; Home automation; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical polymers; Plastics; Refractive index; Silicon compounds;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9555-7

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9555-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2006.278856

Filename

4054344