High bandwidth optical links over multimode fibre

Author

White, I.H. ; Webster, M. ; Penty, R.V.

Author_Institution

Centre for Commun. Res., Bristol Univ., UK

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

695

Abstract

Recently there has been a large increase in the transmission capacity of local area networks (LANs) required for computer interconnect applications. In order to meet the future demand to upgrade existing links to operating speeds of 10 Gb/s, cost effective techniques are required that can overcome the modal bandwidth limitations of the multimode fibre. In this paper, following a general review of potential transmission schemes, including wavelength division multiplexing, we review three techniques for overcoming this limit; restricted mode excitation, multilevel coding, and subcarrier multiplexing

Keywords

encoding; optical fibre LAN; subcarrier multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; LAN; computer interconnect applications; high bandwidth optical links; local area networks; multilevel coding; multimode fibre; restricted mode excitation; subcarrier multiplexing; transmission capacity; wavelength division multiplexing; Application software; Bandwidth; Computer applications; Computer networks; Costs; LAN interconnection; Optical fiber LAN; Optical fiber communication; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

LEOS '99. IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1999 12th Annual Meeting

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5634-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1999.811917

Filename

811917