Gigabit transmission over 1mm POF: Latest results from the POF-PLUS European Project

Author

Abrate, Silvio ; Gaudino, Roberto ; Nespola, Antonino ; Straullu, Stefano ; Antonino, Alessandro

Author_Institution

Ist. Superiore Mario Boella, Torino, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

26-30 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, we present some of the most interesting results obtained in the POF-PLUS European Project, about 1 Gbps transmission over 1 mm Step Index PMMA Optical Fiber. In particular, we will present 1 Gbit/s transmission over 75 m of conventional duplex cable and using RC-LED transmitters and over 75 m of simplex cable (bidirectional transmission over single fiber) with a special laser transmitter. Both the results rely on a special physical layer specifically projected for the POF physical medium, and implemented over a FPGA platform.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; light emitting diodes; light transmission; optical fibres; optical polymers; optical transmitters; FPGA platform; POF-PLUS European project; RC-LED transmitters; bidirectional transmission; bit rate 1 Gbit/s; duplex cable; gigabit transmission; laser transmitter; polymer optical fibers; simplex cable; step index PMMA; Adaptive optics; Bit error rate; Forward error correction; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber cables; Optical fibers; Optical transmitters; Ethernet; POF; home-networking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2011 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Stockholm

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0881-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2011.5970976

Filename

5970976