A New Physical Layer Capable of Record Gigabit Transmission Over 1 mm Step Index Polymer Optical Fiber

Author

Nespola, Antonino ; Straullu, Stefano ; Savio, Paolo ; Zeolla, Dario ; Molina, Julio Cesar Ramirez ; Abrate, Silvio ; Gaudino, Roberto

Author_Institution

Ist. Superiore Mario Boella, Torino, Italy

Volume

28

Issue

20

fYear

2010

Firstpage

2944

Lastpage

2950

Abstract

In this paper we present the latest results from the POF-PLUS EU Project, demonstrating record transmission of a Gigabit Ethernet compliant stream over 75m of 1mm PMMA SI-POF with 2.5 dB system margin, and over 50 m with 7 dB system margin, in both cases using commercial RC-LED. We believe this is an unprecedented results, showing for the first time that the target distance of 50 meters is reachable with a large system margin. The results were made possible by a careful optimization of the physical layer architecture, which is explained in detail in this paper. The system is experimentally demonstrated over realistic digital stream at the transmitter and real time processing at the receiver.

Keywords

optical fibre LAN; optical polymers; polymer fibres; PMMA SI-POF; RC-LED; digital stream; distance 50 m; gigabit Ethernet compliant stream; optimization; physical layer architecture; polymer optical fiber; receiver; system margin; transmission; transmitter; Bit error rate; Ethernet networks; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical transmitters; Gigabit ethernet; optical communications; polymer optical fiber;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2010.2072491

Filename

5560682