• DocumentCode
    1682184
  • Title

    40Gbps links using plastic optical fiber

  • Author

    Polley, Arup ; Gandhi, Rohan J. ; Ralph, Stephen E.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate that plastic optical fiber can support 40 Gbps for short link lengths ~200 m links via DMD and impulse measurements. Further, we report BER and eye measurements for 10, 20 and 30 Gbps POF links confirming the DMD results.
  • Keywords
    error statistics; optical communication; BER; DMD; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 20 Gbit/s; bit rate 30 Gbit/s; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; impulse measurements; plastic optical fiber; size 200 m; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Delay; Detectors; Intersymbol interference; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Plastics; Silicon compounds;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2007. OFC/NFOEC 2007. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Anaheim, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-831-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2007.4348629
  • Filename
    4348629