Recent Results From the EU POF-PLUS Project: Multi-Gigabit Transmission Over 1 mm Core Diameter Plastic Optical Fibers

Author

Okonkwo, C.M. ; Tangdiongga, E. ; Yang, H. ; Visani, D. ; Loquai, S. ; Kruglov, R. ; Charbonnier, B. ; Ouzzif, M. ; Greiss, I. ; Ziemann, O. ; Gaudino, R. ; Koonen, A.M.J.

Author_Institution

COBRA Res. Inst., Tech. Univ. of Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Volume

29

Issue

2

fYear

2011

Firstpage

186

Lastpage

193

Abstract

Recent activity to achieve multi-gigabit transmission over 1 mm core diameter graded-index and step-index plastic optical fibers for distances up to 50 meters is reported in this paper. By employing a simple intensity-modulated direct-detection system with pulse amplitude or digital multi-tone modulation techniques, low-cost transceivers and easy to install large-core POFs, it is demonstrated that multi-gigabit transmission up to 10 Gbit/s over 1-mm core diameter POF infrastructure is feasible. The results presented in this paper were obtained in the EU FP7 POF-PLUS project, which focused on applications in different scenarios, such as in next-generation in-building residential networks and in datacom applications.

Keywords

gradient index optics; intensity modulation; light transmission; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; optical transceivers; pulse amplitude modulation; EU FP7 POF-PLUS project; digital multitone modulation; graded-index plastic optical fibers; low-cost transceivers; multigigabit transmission; pulse amplitude modulation; simple intensity-modulated direct-detection system; size 1 mm; step-index plastic optical fibers; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Decision feedback equalizers; Modulation; Optical fibers; Plastics; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; In-building networks; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; plastic optical fibers; pulse-amplitude modulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2010.2096199

Filename

5654526