Abstract
Polymer optical fiber (POF) is a promising transmission medium to provide broad-band telecommunication services within the customer's premises. POF offers several attractive features for data transmission such as broad bandwidth and low cost for in-house, access, and local-area-network (LAN) applications. This paper presents a review on optcal transmission systems using POF and their enabling technologies. A summary is given of experimental data links with record capacity over record transmission distances. To conclude, we discuss trends for further development and research.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 461-470 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2001 |