TY - JOUR A1 - Rashed, A.N.Z. A1 - Tabbour, M.S.F. A1 - El-Meadawy, S. A1 - Anwar, T. A1 - Sarlan, A. A1 - Yupapin, P. A1 - Amiri, I.S. UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85072570349&doi=10.1016%2fj.rinp.2019.102650&partnerID=40&md5=a934ecdeb0b48610b058d038472ce05f N1 - cited By 94 ID - scholars11052 SN - 22113797 N2 - This paper investigated the different materials of optical fibers, two of them are plastic optical fibers that are namely polysulfone (PSU)/vinyl-phenyl acetate (VPAC) with refractive indices of 1.63/1.567, and the second plastic material namely sapphire (S)/polysulfone (PSU) with refractive indices of 1.77/1.63. One of the other materials consists of fluorite (FT)/polytetrafluorophenylmethacrylate (PTFPMA) with refractive indices of 1.433/1.422, where the second material consists of fluoride (FD)/poly methylmethacrylate (PMMA) with refractive indices of 1.56/1.49. Finally, the third material consists of silica (Si)/tetrafluoropropylmethacrylate (TFPMA) with refractive indices of 1.46/1.373. The simulation results are done by using optiwave simulation version 13. FT/PTFPMA fiber channel has outlined 19.23 Tb/s bit-rate with maximum Q-factor of 11.01, a minimum bit error rate of 1.05 Ã? 10â??28, gain value of 36.57 dB, and noise figure of 5.67 dB in the presence of vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL). It is observed that VCSEL has superior to continuous wave (CW) laser by the improvement of the performance parameters understudy at the same operating conditions. © 2019 The Authors Y1 - 2019/// TI - The effect of using different materials on erbium-doped fiber amplifiers for indoor applications VL - 15 PB - Elsevier B.V. AV - none JF - Results in Physics ER -