• DocumentCode
    1414638
  • Title

    First plastic optical fibre transmission experiment using 520 nm LEDs with intensity modulation/direct detection

  • Author

    Matsuoka, T. ; Ito, T. ; Kaino, T.

  • Author_Institution
    NTT Basic Res. Labs., Kanagawa, Japan
  • Volume
    36
  • Issue
    22
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    10/26/2000 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1836
  • Lastpage
    1837
  • Abstract
    A plastic optical fibre (POF) transmission experiment utilising green LEDs at a wavelength of 520 nm is reported. The transmission loss of the 100 m POF was 10 dB, which is considerably lower than the loss for red (660 nm) and blue (470 nm) LEDs. The receiver sensitivity at 30 Mbit/s was -20.8 dB at 10-9 bit error rate, which suggests the possibility of a longer length signal transmission, 200 m or longer
  • Keywords
    error statistics; intensity modulation; light emitting diodes; optical fibre LAN; optical fibre communication; optical fibre losses; optical modulation; optical receivers; plastics; sensitivity; 10 dB; 100 m; 200 m; 30 Mbit/s; 470 nm; 520 nm; 660 nm; LEDs; bit error rate; blue LEDs; direct detection; green LEDs; intensity modulation; intensity modulation/direct detection; loss; plastic optical fibre transmission; plastic optical fibre transmission experiment; receiver sensitivity; red LEDs; signal transmission; transmission loss;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20001336
  • Filename
    888418