Economics & Material Platform of Bidirectional Transceiver for POF: Plastic Optical Fiber - Softcover

Gusho, Genta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3659534579 ISBN 13: 9783659534577

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Limitations of electrical wires result in distortion and dispersion of the signal for long distances. That have emerged optical communication as the only way of communication for long distances. For medium distances optics can support the high data rates required by the latest applications. Optical networks are becoming the dominant transmission medium as the data rate required by different applications increases. The bottleneck for implementing optical instead of electric networks for medium distances, like local area network, is the cost of the optical components and the cost of replacing the existing copper network. This book will discuss the possible cost benefits that come from the use of different materials like plastic optical fiber instead of silica fiber or Si, Si/Ge instead of InP or GaAs for the transceiver as well as the trade offs between the performance and cost when discrete transceiver is replaced by the monolithically integrated transceiver, by using a process based cost model.

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About the Author

Genta Gusho was born in Albania. She graduated with a B.S. in physics from University of Tirana. Genta continued her studies at MIT, Boston, MA in USA. She earned a M. of Eng. degree in Material Science and Engineering form MIT.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659534579
• ISBN 13: 9783659534577
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84