Title :
FEC-free 50 m 1.5 Gb/s plastic optical fibre link using CAP modulation for home networks
Author :
Geng, L. ; Penty, Richard V. ; White, Ian H. ; Cunningham, David G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng., Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Abstract :
LED-based carrierless amplitude and phase modulation is investigated for a multi-gigabit plastic optical fibre link. An FPGA-based 1.5 Gbit/s error free transmission over 50 m standard SI-POF using CAP64 is achieved, providing 2.9 dB power margin without forward error correction.
Keywords :
home networks; optical fibres; optical links; phase modulation; CAP modulation; LED based carrierless amplitude; forward error correction; home networks; phase modulation; plastic optical fibre link; Bandwidth; Decision feedback equalizers; Forward error correction; Modulation; Optical fibers; Optical signal processing; Receivers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
