Abstract
Plastic optical fibers (POFs) are highly promising transmission media for short distance optical
communication in transmitting information from source to destination by sending light pulses. Compared
to glass optical fibers, POFs offer many advantages such as low cost, huge flexibility and ease of
installation. In contrast, POFs have the drawback of their relatively high loss. Accordingly, a continued
research on the loss analysis of plastic fiber based optical fiber communication systems is necessary to
examine their performance in data transmission. This paper deals with an experimental study of signal
attenuation and bending loss arising from signal transmission over a set of step index multimode
polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) plastic optical fibers of dissimilar length.
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