Sangam: A Confluence of Knowledge Streams

Understanding the economics and material platform of bidirectional transceiver for plastic optical fiber

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dc.contributor Randolph E. Kirchain, Jr.
dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering.
dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering.
dc.creator Gusho, Genta
dc.date 2006-07-31T15:18:01Z
dc.date 2006-07-31T15:18:01Z
dc.date 2005
dc.date 2005
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-04T06:12:24Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-04T06:12:24Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33624
dc.identifier 64391792
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/2004
dc.description Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 2005.
dc.description Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-76).
dc.description 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 thesis 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.
dc.description by Genta (Meco) Gusho.
dc.description M.Eng.
dc.format 76 leaves
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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dc.rights http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582
dc.subject Materials Science and Engineering.
dc.title Understanding the economics and material platform of bidirectional transceiver for plastic optical fiber
dc.type Thesis


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