Polymer Optical Fibres: Fibre Types, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications explores polymer optical fibers, specifically their materials, fabrication, characterization, measurement techniques, and applications. Optical effects, including light propagation, degrading effects of attenuation, scattering, and dispersion, are explained. Other important parameters like mechanical strength, operating temperatures, and processability are also described. Polymer optical fibers (POF) have a number of advantages over glass fibers, such as low cost, flexibility, low weight, electromagnetic immunity, good bandwidth, simple installation, and mechanical stability.
1. 1. Introduction – why we made this book - p. 1 2. 2. Basics of light guidance - p. 9 3. 3. Basic principles of optical fibres - p. 47 4. 3.1. Overview - p. 47 5. 3.2. Basic principle - p. 47 6. 3.3. Ray-theory description - p. 50 7. 3.4. Wave theory description - p. 55 8. 3.5. Mode coupling - p. 60 9. 3.6. Launching conditions - p. 69 10. 3.7. Dispersion in optical fibres - p. 71 11. 3.8. Losses in optical fibres - p. 76 12. 3.9. Nonlinear effects - p. 85 13. 3.10. Basic fibre types - p. 90 14. 3.11. Modelling and simulation - p. 98 15. 3.12. Summary - p. 112 16. Sources of other information and advice - p. 112 17. 4. Special fibres and components - p. 119 18. 5. Materials, chemical properties and analysis - p. 153 19. 6. Fabrication techniques for polymer optical fibres - p. 187 20. 7. Mechanical properties of polymer-optical fibres - p. 201 21. 8. Polymer-optical fibres for data transmission - p. 217 22. 8.1. Introduction and overview of the chapter - p. 217 23. 8.2. Basics of data transfer - p. 219 24. 8.3. Optical transmitters - p. 232 25. 8.4. Optical receivers - p. 251 26. 8.5. Polymer-optical fibres as optical transmission channel - p. 266 27. 8.6. Modulation formats for polymer-optical fibre - p. 270 28. 8.7. POF Gbit/s transmission - p. 297 29. 8.8. Products and standards - p. 304 30. 9. Applications of polymer-optical fibres in sensor technology, lighting and further applications - p. 311 31. 10. Polymer-optical fibre (POF) integration into textile fabric structures - p. 337 32. 11. Overview of the POF market - p. 349 33. Index - p. 401
Polymer Optical Fibres: Fibre Types, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications explores polymer optical fibers, specifically their materials, fabrication, characterization, measurement techniques, and applications. Optical effects, including light propagation, degrading effects of attenuation, scattering, and dispersion, are explained. Other important parameters like mechanical strength, operating temperatures, and processability are also described. Polymer optical fibers (POF) have a number of advantages over glass fibers, such as low cost, flexibility, low weight, electromagnetic immunity, good bandwidth, simple installation, and mechanical stability.
1. 1. Introduction – why we made this book - p. 1 2. 2. Basics of light guidance - p. 9 3. 3. Basic principles of optical fibres - p. 47 4. 3.1. Overview - p. 47 5. 3.2. Basic principle - p. 47 6. 3.3. Ray-theory description - p. 50 7. 3.4. Wave theory description - p. 55 8. 3.5. Mode coupling - p. 60 9. 3.6. Launching conditions - p. 69 10. 3.7. Dispersion in optical fibres - p. 71 11. 3.8. Losses in optical fibres - p. 76 12. 3.9. Nonlinear effects - p. 85 13. 3.10. Basic fibre types - p. 90 14. 3.11. Modelling and simulation - p. 98 15. 3.12. Summary - p. 112 16. Sources of other information and advice - p. 112 17. 4. Special fibres and components - p. 119 18. 5. Materials, chemical properties and analysis - p. 153 19. 6. Fabrication techniques for polymer optical fibres - p. 187 20. 7. Mechanical properties of polymer-optical fibres - p. 201 21. 8. Polymer-optical fibres for data transmission - p. 217 22. 8.1. Introduction and overview of the chapter - p. 217 23. 8.2. Basics of data transfer - p. 219 24. 8.3. Optical transmitters - p. 232 25. 8.4. Optical receivers - p. 251 26. 8.5. Polymer-optical fibres as optical transmission channel - p. 266 27. 8.6. Modulation formats for polymer-optical fibre - p. 270 28. 8.7. POF Gbit/s transmission - p. 297 29. 8.8. Products and standards - p. 304 30. 9. Applications of polymer-optical fibres in sensor technology, lighting and further applications - p. 311 31. 10. Polymer-optical fibre (POF) integration into textile fabric structures - p. 337 32. 11. Overview of the POF market - p. 349 33. Index - p. 401
