Characteristics of Multimode Microstructured POF Performance

Strain and temperature sensing based on multimode interference in partially chlorinated polymer optical fibers

We develop strain and temperature sensors based on multimode interference in a partially chlorinated graded-index polymer optical fiber (PCGI-POF) and experimentally investigate their sensing performance at room temperature using incident light of ∼1300 nm wavelength. The length of the PCGI-POF was 0.7m. The measured strain and temperature sensitivities were −4.47 pm/με and +9.66 nm/°C/m, respe...

Performance of Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation in 10 Gb/s Transmission Systems with Polymer Optical Fiber

Rapid increase of data traffic in data communication applications has pushed the demand for high-capacity and low-cost optical networks for use in local area networks (LAN), such as enterprise or datacenter backbones [1,2]. The use of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) in such cases will often require a new installation, because the commonly used CAT-5 copper cables are unsuitable for 10GbE transmissi...

827nm Bragg grating sensor in multimode microstructured polymer optical fibre

*Dissertation Advisor: Dimitris Syvridis, Professor Advanced modulation schemes and signal processing techniques for transmission in highly multimode fibers

In this dissertation, advanced modulation schemes and digital signal processing techniques are proposed and investigated through both numerical simulations as well as experiments, in order to overcome the limitations of multimode step index plastic optical fibers (SI-POF) to support data rates in the order of Gbps. In particular, novel multi-carrier modulation techniques with the inherent prope...

Future Directions for Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibres

Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibres [MPOF] were first made in 2001, and subsequent development has aimed at exploiting the material and design opportunities they present. Most effort has been focused on developing approaches for high bandwidth MPOF, and investigating the properties of multimode microstructured fibres. We also consider new applications in endoscopy and photonic interconnects,...