• DocumentCode
    3015624
  • Title

    Mode coupling: Why POF Supports 40Gbps

  • Author

    Polley, Arup ; Balemarthy, Kasyapa ; Ralph, Stephen E.

  • Author_Institution
    Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-11 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate experimentally and numerically that mode-coupling in graded index plastic optical fiber enables 40 Gbps over 200 m in the presence of dramatic refractive index errors.
  • Keywords
    error analysis; optical fibres; refractive index; POF; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; graded index plastic optical fiber; mode coupling; refractive index errors; Attenuation; Bandwidth; Delay; Glass; Optical computing; Optical coupling; Optical fibers; Plastics; Power distribution; Refractive index;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-834-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453196
  • Filename
    4453196