1.25 Gbit/s Over 50 m Step-Index Plastic Optical Fiber Using a Fully Integrated Optical Receiver With an Integrated Equalizer

Author

Atef, Mohamed ; Swoboda, Robert ; Zimmermann, Horst

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electrodynamics, Microwave & Circuit Eng., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna, Austria

Volume

30

Issue

1

fYear

2012

Firstpage

118

Lastpage

122

Abstract

A single-chip optical receiver with an integrated equalizer is used to achieve a high performance gigabit transmission over step-index plastic optical fiber (SI-POF). The integrated equalizer can compensate for different POF lengths up to 50 m. The integrated optical receiver is fabricated in a low-cost silicon 0.6 μ m BiCMOS technology and has a power consumption of 100 mW. Real-time transmission at data rates of 1.8 Gbit/s over 20 m SI-POF and 1.25 Gbit/s over 50 m SI-POF with high sensitivities and BER of 10^-9 is achieved. The optical transmitter is based on an edge emitting laser.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; error statistics; integrated optics; optical receivers; optical transmitters; BER; BiCMOS technology; bit rate 1.25 Gbit/s; bit rate 1.8 Gbit/s; distance 50 m; edge emitting laser; integrated equalizer; integrated optical receiver; optical transmitter; power 100 mW; single-chip optical receiver; size 0.6 mum; step-index plastic optical fiber; Bit error rate; Equalizers; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical variables measurement; Equalization; integrated optical receiver; large-area integrated photodiode; step-index plastic optical fiber (SI-POF);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2011.2179520

Filename

6104083