In a summary, we have presented high transmission data rates of plastic optical fibers over conventional silica
fibers based optical links for short transmission applications. Plastic optical fibers can be designed on window
platform so that users can design or select appropriate fiber types which are standard single mode optical fibers,
dispersion shifted fibers, dispersion flatten fibers and multi layer refractive index profile fibers. It is theoretically
found that the increased ambient temperature, relative refractive index difference, and transmission link length, this
leads to the decreased of MTDM transmission bit rates either per link or per channel for both plastic and silica fibers.
As well as the increased transmission link length, this results in the increasing of MTDM product either per link or
per channel for both materials based optical links under study. But the increased of both ambient temperature and
relative refractive index difference, this leads to the decreased of MTDM product either per link or per channel for
both materials based optical links under study. It is evident that the increased of ambient temperature, transmission
link length, and relative refractive index difference, this results in decreasing of transmitted signal bandwidth for both
silica and plastic fibers. Moreover the increased operating optical signal wavelength, ambient temperature, and
relative refractive index difference, this leads to the increased of bit rate thermal penalty for both silica and plastic
fibers. It is also indicated that ambient temperature, relative refractive index difference and operating optical signal wavelength, this results in the increased bit rate thermal sensitivity for both materials based optical links under study.
It is theoretically found that plastic optical fibers have presented higher MTDM transmission bit rates, products, and
transmitted signal bandwidth. As well as plastic optical fibers have presented lower bit rate thermal penalty and bit
rate thermal sensitivity compared to silica fibers at the same conditions of operating parameters