Title :
Comparative analysis of the transmission capabilities of large core plastic optical fibres
Author :
López, Alicia ; Heredia, Patricia ; Mateo, Javier ; Losada, M. Ángeles
Author_Institution :
GTF, Univ. de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
Abstract :
In this work we characterize the transmission capabilities of several one millimetre diameter plastic optical fibres (POFs) by analyzing their behaviour at a wavelength in the visible range using a bit error rate (BER) measurement system that allows data rate sweeping. We focus our investigation on transmission data rates in the gigabit range and in-home application distances. The data rate limit for each fibre length extracted from our measurements shows that large core plastic optical fibres are suitable candidates for home and office networks. Moreover, conventional step-index plastic optical fibres (SI-POFs) exhibit error free transmission of Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) data over 25 m, which is a reasonable length for in-home applications. However, only the tested graded-index plastic optical fibre (GI-POF) has been able to transmit GbE data at a 50-m length, which could be extended with a lower attenuation fibre.
Keywords :
error statistics; gradient index optics; optical cables; optical fibre LAN; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre testing; optical polymers; plastics; BER; bit error rate; data rate sweeping; distance 25 m; distance 50 m; error free transmission; fibre length; gigabit ethernet transmission; graded-index plastic optical fibre; large core step index plastic optical fibres; optical fibre transmission; Bit error rate; Data mining; Ethernet networks; Length measurement; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Plastics; Testing; Wavelength measurement; POF characterization; Plastic Optical Fibre; in-home networks;
Conference_Titel :
ICTON Mediterranean Winter Conference,2009. ICTON-MW 2009. 3rd
Conference_Location :
Angers
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5745-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5746-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICTONMW.2009.5385557
