Title :
High bandwidth optical links over multimode fibre
Author :
White, I.H. ; Webster, M. ; Penty, R.V.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Commun. Res., Bristol Univ., UK
Abstract :
Recently there has been a large increase in the transmission capacity of local area networks (LANs) required for computer interconnect applications. In order to meet the future demand to upgrade existing links to operating speeds of 10 Gb/s, cost effective techniques are required that can overcome the modal bandwidth limitations of the multimode fibre. In this paper, following a general review of potential transmission schemes, including wavelength division multiplexing, we review three techniques for overcoming this limit; restricted mode excitation, multilevel coding, and subcarrier multiplexing
Keywords :
encoding; optical fibre LAN; subcarrier multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; LAN; computer interconnect applications; high bandwidth optical links; local area networks; multilevel coding; multimode fibre; restricted mode excitation; subcarrier multiplexing; transmission capacity; wavelength division multiplexing; Application software; Bandwidth; Computer applications; Computer networks; Costs; LAN interconnection; Optical fiber LAN; Optical fiber communication; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
LEOS '99. IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1999 12th Annual Meeting
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5634-9
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1999.811917
