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Modeling On Rayleigh Scattering In Optical Waveguides

In the last few years, interest in polymer optical fibers (POF) has increased because of
their low cost, easy handling and good flexibility even at large diameters. Moreover,
optical cables do not have the problem of electromagnetic interference, which gives, for
instance, the problem of cross-talk in copper telephone cables. In the usage of current
communication and computer systems the yield has gained a big importance and it has
seen from studies that light scattering loss is the only loss, which cannot be eliminated
entirely. Besides, this loss causes its attenuation loss intrinsically and determines the
lower limit of loss in the POF.
In this work, the importance and the dependencies of light scattering were studied, and
calculations were done in order to find more appropriate polymer for using as core
material of POFs. For this aim, a computer program that calculates the light scattering
loss of several amorphous polymers and plots the graph of isotropic scattering loss versus isothermal compressibility and total attenuation loss versus wavelength was
written.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1251675/index.pdf
Date01 September 2003
CreatorsCamak, Burak
ContributorsCakir, Serhat
PublisherMETU
Source SetsMiddle East Technical Univ.
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeM.S. Thesis
Formattext/pdf
RightsTo liberate the content for public access

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