Title :
Materials technology for perfluorinated graded-index polymer optical fibers
Author :
Blyler, Lee L., Jr. ; White, Whitney R. ; Ratnagiri, Ram
Author_Institution :
Lucent Technol. Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Advances in polymer materials technology have allowed the development of perfluorinated graded-index polymer optical fibers that have loss and bandwidth performance competitive with multimode silica optical fibers, but with greatly simplified interconnection.
Keywords :
gradient index optics; optical fibres; optical polymers; polymer fibres; polymers; bandwidth performance; loss performance; materials technology; multimode silica optical fibers; perfluorinated graded-index polymer optical fibers; polymer materials technology; Geometry; High speed optical techniques; Materials science and technology; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical polymers; Optical scattering; Rayleigh scattering; Silicon compounds;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6705-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2001.989433
