Recent results from the EU POF-PLUS project: Multi-gigabit transmission over 1 mm core diameter plastic optical fibers

Abstract:

Recent activity to achieve multi-gigabit transmission over 1 mm core diameter graded-index and step-index plastic optical fibers for distances up to 50 meters is reported in this paper. By employing a simple intensity-modulated direct-detection system with pulse amplitude or digital multi-tone modulation techniques, low-cost transceivers and easy to install large-core POFs, it is demonstrated that multi-gigabit transmission up to 10 Gbit/s over 1-mm core diameter POF infrastructure is feasible. The results presented in this paper were obtained in the EU FP7 POF-PLUS project, which focused on applications in different scenarios, such as in next-generation in-building residential networks and in datacom applications. © 2011 IEEE.

Año de publicación:

2011

Keywords:

• Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
• In-building networks
• plastic optical fibers
• pulse-amplitude modulation

Fuente:

scopus