• DocumentCode
    670833
  • Title

    FEC-free 50 m 1.5 Gb/s plastic optical fibre link using CAP modulation for home networks

  • Author

    Geng, L. ; Penty, Richard V. ; White, Ian H. ; Cunningham, David G.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Eng., Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    16-20 Sept. 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    LED-based carrierless amplitude and phase modulation is investigated for a multi-gigabit plastic optical fibre link. An FPGA-based 1.5 Gbit/s error free transmission over 50 m standard SI-POF using CAP64 is achieved, providing 2.9 dB power margin without forward error correction.
  • Keywords
    home networks; optical fibres; optical links; phase modulation; CAP modulation; LED based carrierless amplitude; forward error correction; home networks; phase modulation; plastic optical fibre link; Bandwidth; Decision feedback equalizers; Forward error correction; Modulation; Optical fibers; Optical signal processing; Receivers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Amsterdam
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6706080