Title : 
Comparison of OOK- and PAM-4 Modulation for 10 Gbit/s Transmission over up to 300 m Polymer Optical Fiber
         
        
            Author : 
Breyer, Felipe ; Lee, S C Jeffrey ; Randel, S. ; Hanik, Norbert
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Inst. for Commun. Eng., Tech. Universitdt Munchen, Munich, Germany
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
10 Gbit/s Transmission over up to 300 m of multimode 62.5 μm core-diameter perfluorinated graded-index polymer optical fiber is compared using on-off-keying (OOK) or 4-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) and feed-forward or decision-feedback equalization.
         
        
            Keywords : 
optical fibre communication; polymer fibres; pulse amplitude modulation; 4-level pulse amplitude modulation; decision-feedback equalization; perfluorinated graded-index polymer optical fiber; polymer optical fiber; size 62.5 mum; Data communication; Decision feedback equalizers; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber cables; Optical fibers; Optical modulation; Optical polymers; Signal generators; Silicon compounds; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Diego, CA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-55752-856-8
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528669