Intrinsic robustness of fiber misaligned connections and reflection noise in plastic optical fiber links for cost-effective radio-over-fiber systems

Engineering & Materials Science

• Plastic optical fibers 100%
• Radio-over-fiber 90%
• Multimode fibers 48%
• Fibers 45%
• Silica 34%
• Costs 25%

Physics & Astronomy

• plastic fibers 86%
• costs 50%
• optical fibers 50%
• fibers 37%
• performance 19%
• silicon dioxide 17%