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Plastic optical fiber technology for reliable home networking: overview and results of the EU project pof-all [PDF]
IEEE Communications Magazine, 2009 The rising performance of broadband connections for residential users, particularly in conjunction with fiber to the home, will present a new challenge for telecom operators in the short and medium terms: how to deliver the high bit rate digital signals with high quality-of-service to all consumer devices scattered inside the building of final users ...
I. MOLLERS +10 more
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Characterization of a Y-Coupler and Its Impact on the Performance of Plastic Optical Fiber Links
Fibers, 2018 Couplers and splitters are common devices in single-mode and multi-mode glass fibers applications, where they perform a variety of functions. However, when switching to plastic optical fibers (POFs), there is a shortage of commercial devices, which are ...
Alicia López +5 more
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Sensors, 2023 Polymer-based surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors can be used to realize simple, small-size, disposable, and low-cost biosensors for application in several fields, e.g., healthcare.
Francesco Arcadio +4 more
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Sustainability, 2022 Plastic optical fiber (POF) has become a dominant technology, with potential to be fully utilized in a small-world communication system because it has many advantages over existing systems. Among several high-speed solutions, POF can be considered as one of the most promising technologies because of its attractive features, such as efficiency, user ...
Mohammad Syuhaimi Ab-Rahman +3 more
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Refractive Index Sensor Based on Twisted Tapered Plastic Optical Fibers
Photonics, 2019 We proposed a refractive index (RI) sensor employing two twisted tapered plastic optical fibers (POFs). The tapered POFs were fabricated by a heating and drawing method and were twisted around each other to form a coupled structure.
Chuanxin Teng +6 more
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Recent Results From the EU POF-PLUS Project: Multi-Gigabit Transmission Over 1 mm Core Diameter Plastic Optical Fibers [PDF]
Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2011 Recent activity to achieve multi-gigabit transmission over 1 mm core diameter graded-index and step-index plastic optical fibers for distances up to 50 meters is reported in this paper. By employing a simple intensity-modulated direct-detection system with pulse amplitude or digital multi-tone modulation techniques, low-cost transceivers and easy to ...
Okonkwo C. M. +11 more
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Detection of 2-Furaldehyde in Milk by MIP-Based POF Chips Combined with an SPR-POF Sensor
Sensors, 2022 An innovative optical-chemical sensor has been used to detect the 2-furaldehyde (2-FAL) in milk. The proposed sensing approach exploits the refractive index changing in a microstructured chip based on a plastic optical fiber (POF) with orthogonal micro ...
Giancarla Alberti +6 more
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Chemosensors, 2023 In this work, a novel optical fiber sensor system for ultra-low perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) detection in aqueous solutions is proposed. It is based on the connection, in series, of two different plastic optical fiber (POF) platforms: the first is a ...
Rosalba Pitruzzella +6 more
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SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT OF OPTICAL AND DYNAMIC MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS [PDF]
Chemical Industry and Chemical Engineering Quarterly, 2010 Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) is one of the most powerful tools to study the behavior of plastic and polymer composite materials and it is a potentially very useful tool to simulate behavior of plastic optic fibers (POF) in real appli¬cations.
SALAH S. MUSBAH, LJILJANA M. BRAJOVIĆ
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Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2018 Plastic optical fiber was chosen for information delivery media in smart textile. Cladding layer was peeled off by chemical and mechanical methods to find optimal peeling conditions.
Sun Hee Moon, Joon Seok Lee, In Hwan Sul
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