Title :
Modal noise impact in plastic optical fiber links for radio-over-fiber systems
Author :
Matsuura, Motoharu ; Furukawa, Ryo ; Inoue, Akira ; Koike, Yasuharu
Author_Institution :
Center for Frontier Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Electro-Commun., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
We evaluate and compare the modal noise impacts in silica-based multimode fibers (MMFs) and plastic optical fibers (POFs) with same core diameters of 50-μm. In this experiment, we show that POFs fundamentally have higher tolerance to offset connection and lower modal noise than MMFs in terms of error-vector magnitude and speckle pattern.
Keywords :
optical links; optical noise; radio-over-fibre; MMFs; POFs; error-vector magnitude; modal noise impact; plastic optical fiber links; radio-over-fiber systems; silica-based multimode fibers; size 50 mum; speckle pattern;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC 2013), 39th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
London
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-84919-759-5
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2013.1659
