Recent Developments in Polymer Optical Fiber (POF) Transceivers

In this paper, the concept, design and development of an optical transceiver using polymer optical fibers (POF) are presented. The optoelectronic conversion is performed using a novel multifunctional vertical electroabsorption transceiver (V-EAT) element where a single fiber is used and where no light source is required in the module leading to a low-cost and low-power system. As an experimental example, a fiber wireless transceiver is presented where the optical fiber feeds a multi band in-building base station for WLAN applications employing radio over fiber (RoF) technology.