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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2007.4348629
