Record high-speed short-range transmission over 1 mm core diameter POF employing DMT modulation

H Yang; S C J Lee; C M Okonkwo; S T Abraha; H P A van den Boom; F Breyer; S Randel; A M J Koonen; E Tangdiongga

doi:10.1364/OL.35.000730

Record high-speed short-range transmission over 1 mm core diameter POF employing DMT modulation

Opt Lett. 2010 Mar 1;35(5):730-2. doi: 10.1364/OL.35.000730.

Authors

H Yang¹, S C J Lee, C M Okonkwo, S T Abraha, H P A van den Boom, F Breyer, S Randel, A M J Koonen, E Tangdiongga

Affiliation

¹ COBRA Research Institute, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Electro-optical Communications, Eindhoven University of Technology, Den Dolech 2 PT-11, NL-5612AZ Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

PMID: 20195334
DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.000730

Abstract

We report multigigabit/second transmission capacity in 1 mm core diameter graded index plastic optical fiber (POF) exploiting off-the-shelf low-cost components and discrete multitone (DMT) modulation. Transmission capacities of 10.1 Gbits/s x 15 m and 12.7 Gbits/s x 3 m are achieved for average bit-error rates less than 10(-3).