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Manufacture of perfluorinated plastic optical fibers
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2004
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Materials SciencePhotonicsOptical MaterialsEngineeringHigh-performance FiberMultimaterial FiberFiber StructureOptical PropertiesFiber-optic CommunicationPolymer ScienceMechanical EngineeringMuch Lower CostNew Extrusion ProcessFiber OpticsFiber OpticPolymer Chemistry
We review manufacturing processes for graded-index polymer optical fiber (GI-POF). We also demonstrate a new extrusion process, which produces GI-POF at much lower cost, with attenuation below 25 dB/km, and bandwidth greater than 400 MHz-km.