5. Glossary
POF; Plastic Optical Fiber
Plastic optical fiber used in datacommunications or for consumer applications.
OM-x; Multimode Optical Fiber – generation x
Multimode optical fibers are classified/defined according to their generation. For each generation, a performance range is defined. A generation 3 optical fiber (OM-3) is defined by its core diameter, numerical aperture, linear bandwidth and attenuation.
Ouverture numérique; numerical apperture
The numerical aperture of a fiber corresponds to the arcsine of the angle formed by the divergence or acceptance cone of an optical fiber.
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