Title :
40 Gbps Short Reach Links Using Plastic Optical Fiber
Author :
Gandhi, Rohan J. ; Polley, Arup ; Ralph, Stephen E.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA
Abstract :
We demonstrate that 50 mum perfluorinated graded index plastic optical fiber exhibits strong mode coupling and sufficiently low differential mode delay to support 40 Gbps short reach links
Keywords :
gradient index optics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre couplers; optical materials; plastics; 40 Gbit/s; 50 micron; differential mode delay; mode coupling; perfluorinated graded index plastic optical fiber; short reach links; Bandwidth; Delay; Fiber lasers; Laser modes; Length measurement; Optical coupling; Optical fibers; Optical pulse generation; Plastics; Silicon compounds;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9555-7
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7803-9555-7
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2006.278857
