42-Gb/s Transmission Over Large-Core 1-mm PMMA Graded-Index Polymer Optical Fiber

Author

Loquai, S. ; Kruglov, R. ; Winkler, Frank ; Bunge, Christian-Alexander ; Schmauss, Bernhard ; Hartl, E. ; Ziemann, O. ; Habel, Kai

Author_Institution

Polymer Opt. Fiber Applic. Center, Univ. of Appl. Sci. Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany

Volume

25

Issue

6

fYear

2013

fDate

15-Mar-13

Firstpage

602

Lastpage

605

Abstract

The authors report on very high-speed data transmission over a large-core 1-mm polymethylmetacrylate (PMMA) polymer optical fiber (POF) using pulse amplitude modulation. A high-speed large-area varnothing 400 μm photoreceiver based on a gallium-arsenide metal-semiconductor-metal photodetector (PD) is used in order to reach the next major hurdle of 40 Gb/s over 1-mm PMMA POF. With this transmission setup record bit rates between 42 and 36 Gb/s were achieved over 1 to 10 m.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; gallium arsenide; gradient index optics; optical modulation; optical receivers; photodetectors; polymer fibres; pulse amplitude modulation; GaAs; bit rate 36 Gbit/s to 42 Gbit/s; high speed data transmission; large core polymethylmetacrylate graded-index polymer optical fiber; metal-semiconductor-metal photodetector; photoreceiver; pulse amplitude modulation; size 1 mm; size 400 mum; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Bit rate; Decision feedback equalizers; Modulation; Optical fibers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; 40 Gb/s; optical fiber communication; polymer optical fiber (POF); pulse amplitude modulation (PAM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2013.2247037

Filename

6461387