• DocumentCode
    1592220
  • Title

    VCSEL-based 100m 25Gb/s plastic optical fiber links

  • Author

    Caputo, C. Patrick ; Decker, Patrick J. ; Ralph, Stephen E.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We report error-free performance at 25Gb/s using a directly-modulated 850nm VCSEL over 100m graded-index perfluorinated plastic optical fiber with good launch offset tolerance. Bandwidth assessment of 18 fibers demonstrates that modern POF can achieve this performance.
  • Keywords
    optical links; surface emitting lasers; GI-PF-POF; VCSEL; bit rate 25 Gbit/s; distance 100 m; graded-index perfluorinated plastic optical fiber; size 850 nm; Bandwidth; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Plastics; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • ISSN
    pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0213-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5875642