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Fabrication and Characterization of Disordered Polymer Optical Fibers for Transverse Anderson Localization of Light
Published on: July 29, 2013
Influence of launch-beam distribution on bandwidth in step-index plastic optical fibers
Svetislav Savović1, Branko Drljača, Alexandar Djordjevich
1University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Science, Kragujevac, Serbia. savovic@kg.ac.rs
Abstract:
The power-flow equation is employed to calculate bandwidth of step-index plastic optical fibers (POFs) for different launch conditions. The outcome specifies bandwidth as a function of the mean input angle and width of the launch-beam distribution. For small distribution widths, bandwidth is shown to decrease with increasing mean input angle of the launch-beam distribution. For large distribution widths, bandwidth becomes independent of the launch angle. Launch-beam distribution, mode-dependent attenuation, and mode dispersion and coupling in POFs strongly influence the bandwidth of data transmission systems.
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