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Specialty Optical Fibers Handbook
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Specialty Optical Fibers Handbook

by Alexis Mendez, T. F. Morse
December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
840 pages
28h 20m
English
Academic Press
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Chapter 20
Polymer Optical Fibers
Olaf Ziema nn
Polymer Optical Fiber Application Center, Nu
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rnberg, Germany
20.1 INTRODUCTION
This chapter describes the polymer optical fiber (POF), probably one of the
fiber types with the highest loss and the smallest bandwidth. Nevertheless, it is
the only optical fiber that can be installed by everyone without any special tool.
That is why the potential of POF systems is very high.
20.2 POF BASICS
The first POFs were manufactured by DuPont as early as the late 1960s.
Because of the incomplete purification of the source materials used, optical
attenuation values remained in the vicinity of 1000 dB/km. During the 1970s, ...
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