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Graded-Index and Single-Mode Polymer Optical Fibers

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High-bandwidth graded-index (GI) polymer optical fiber (POF) and single-mode POF with good mechanical properties were successfully obtained by our interfacial-gel polymerization technique. The bandwidth of the GI POF is about 1 GHz· km which is two hundred times larger than that of the conventional step-index (SI) POF. The minimum attenuation of transmission is 56 dB/km at 688-nm wavelength and 94 dB/km at 780-nm wavelength. The single-mode POF in which the core diameter was 3-15 µ m and the attenuation of transmission was 200 dB/km at 652-nm wavelength was successfully obtained for the first time.

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Koike, Y. Graded-Index and Single-Mode Polymer Optical Fibers. MRS Online Proceedings Library 247, 817–828 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-247-817

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