Abstract

With the recent rapid increase of the demands for higher quality of applications in home PCs, high-definition 3D TVs, tablet devices, and intelligent home appliances, high bit rate home networking systems have become inevitably important. In order to fulfill these demands, Plastic Optical Fibers (POFs) are among the most promising transmission media for in-home networks, because they can offer many advantages such as great flexibility, easy handling, and high bitrate as fast as 40Gbps which can be achieved by our graded-index technology that improved the bandwidth. The next generation home networking system can be realized by the concept of “Fiber-to-the-Display”, by connecting POFs directly to terminal devices in home. Details will be described in the presentation.

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