Title :
Real-time gigabit ethernet transmission over up to 25 m Step-Index Polymer Optical Fibre using LEDs and FPGA-based signal processing
Author :
Breyer, Florian ; Lee, S. C Jeffrey ; Cárdenas, Daniel ; Randel, Sebastian ; Hanik, Norbert
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Commun. Eng., Tech. Univ. Munchen, Munich, Germany
Abstract :
Real-time gigabit Ethernet transmission over up to 25 m step-index polymer optical fibre is demonstrated using a commercial LED. This is enabled by use of PAM-4 modulation and receiver equalisation including clock recovery, implemented in an FPGA.
Keywords :
equalisers; field programmable gate arrays; light emitting diodes; optical fibre LAN; optical information processing; optical modulation; optical polymers; optical receivers; pulse amplitude modulation; synchronisation; FPGA-based signal processing; LED; PAM-4 modulation; clock recovery; real-time gigabit Ethernet transmission; receiver equalisation; size 25 m; step-index polymer optical fibre; Clocks; Ethernet networks; Field programmable gate arrays; Light emitting diodes; Optical buffering; Optical fibers; Optical polymers; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Organic light emitting diodes;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2009. ECOC '09. 35th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5096-1
