Title :
Mode-filtering characteristics of hard-polymer cladding fiber
Author :
Moon, Seung-Hyun ; Kim, Dong Yeong
Author_Institution :
Kwangju Inst. of Sci. of Technol., South Korea
Abstract :
Bandwidth improvement due to the mode-filtering effect caused by mode-dependent loss mechanism in a hard-polymer cladding fiber was investigated experimentally as well as numerically. We believe this principle can be applied to silica and plastic multimode fibers.
Keywords :
optical fibre cladding; optical fibre filters; optical fibre losses; optical polymers; silicon compounds; SiO2; bandwidth improvement; hard-polymer cladding fiber; mode-dependent loss mechanism; mode-filtering characteristics; mode-filtering effect; plastic multimode fiber; polymer cladding fiber; silica fibers; Attenuation; Bandwidth; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Polarization mode dispersion; Polymers; Silicon compounds;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-746-6
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2003.1247455
