TY - JOUR
T1 - Graded-index optical fibers of methyl methacrylate-vinyl benzoate copolymer with low loss and high bandwidth
AU - Ohtsuka, Yasuji
AU - Nihei, Eisuke
AU - Koike, Yasuhiro
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1990
Y1 - 1990
N2 - The interfacial-gel copolymerization of 3/1, or 4/1 (wt/wt) methyl methacrylate-vinyl benzoate monomer mixture followed by heat drawing results in graded-index plastic optical fibers with attenuation loss of 212 and 134 dB/km at 652 nm, respectively, and with bandwidths of 170 and 260 MHz km, respectively, in comparison with 6 MHz km of the current step-index plastic optical fiber. Now, it has been confirmed experimentally that graded-index fibers are tremendously superior to step-index fibers for data-carrying capacity, while attenuation losses of both fibers are comparable.
AB - The interfacial-gel copolymerization of 3/1, or 4/1 (wt/wt) methyl methacrylate-vinyl benzoate monomer mixture followed by heat drawing results in graded-index plastic optical fibers with attenuation loss of 212 and 134 dB/km at 652 nm, respectively, and with bandwidths of 170 and 260 MHz km, respectively, in comparison with 6 MHz km of the current step-index plastic optical fiber. Now, it has been confirmed experimentally that graded-index fibers are tremendously superior to step-index fibers for data-carrying capacity, while attenuation losses of both fibers are comparable.
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U2 - 10.1063/1.103961
DO - 10.1063/1.103961
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:36549104872
SN - 0003-6951
VL - 57
SP - 120
EP - 122
JO - Applied Physics Letters
JF - Applied Physics Letters
IS - 2
ER -