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
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