Title : 
Giga-bit transmission over multimode air-clad holey fiber in a 1×4 PON configuration
         
        
            Author : 
Kim, Y. ; Kim, D.U. ; Jeong, Y. ; Kim, T.-Y. ; Park, C.-S. ; Oh, K. ; Kobelke, J. ; Schuster, K. ; Kirchhof, J.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Inf. & Commun., GIST, Gwangju
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We report 1.25 Gbps transmission over a multimode air clad holey fiber(MACHF) using a 1times4 MACHF power splitter that showed a low insertion loss of 9.9 dB and excess loss of 3.9 dB. Eye opening for 20 m transmission at 850 nm was measured.
         
        
            Keywords : 
light transmission; optical couplers; optical fibre networks; optical switches; PON configuration; bit rate 1.25 Gbit/s; giga-bit transmission; loss 3.9 dB; loss 9.9 dB; multimode air-clad holey fiber; power splitter; wavelength 850 nm; Holey fibers; Insertion loss; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber losses; Optical waveguides; Passive optical networks; Photonic crystal fibers; Power generation; Propagation losses; Silicon compounds; (060.1810) Couplers, switches, and multiplexers; (230.1360) Beam splitters;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Long Beach, CA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-55752-813-1
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-55752-813-1
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628426