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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here
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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (9940)12/26/2000 11:29:11 PM
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Another "modality exploration" that will probably enter the standards fray at some point is this next-generation polymer optical fiber. Though they still have much room for improvement to reach theoretical performance, 11Gbps @ 100m using inexpensive laser diodes @ 1300nm is nothing to sneeze at (and is a monumental improvement over the performance from 10 years ago).

Here's a link to a fairly recent paper on plastic and polymer optical fibers. If you skip the few sections where it breaks into theoretical equations, there are some interesting historical discussions and future potential discussions (and some surprising theoretical results in comparison to silica base fibers) that are very readable.

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There was also a group at Washington State working on single-mode polymer optical fiber, but I haven't seen anything new out of them in some time.
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