High-Speed Graded-Index Plastic Optical Fibers and Their Simple Interconnects for 4K/8K Video Transmission

Yasuhiro Koike; Azusa Inoue

doi:10.1109/JLT.2016.2517086

High-Speed Graded-Index Plastic Optical Fibers and Their Simple Interconnects for 4K/8K Video Transmission

Yasuhiro Koike, Azusa Inoue

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Abstract

We developed a consumer-friendly interface graded-index plastic optical fiber (GI POF) cable with the ballpoint-pen interconnects for uncompressed 4K/8K video transmission of 120 Gb/s. Since the material dispersion of perfluorinated GI POF is smaller than that of silica multimode fiber (MMF) at 850-nm wavelength, the bandwidth achieved by GI POF is higher than that of silica MMF. Moreover, it is confirmed that by using GI POF with larger-scale microscopic polymer heterogeneities, serious noise problems observed in silica MMF are much improved by GI POF, which is achieved by resulting stronger mode coupling. This suggests that thinner 4K/8K cables can be feasible by using multilevel transmission through the low-noise GI POFs. The high-speed and low-noise GI POF is paving the way for consumer applications of 4K/8K optical interface toward the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.

Original language	English
Article number	7378834
Pages (from-to)	1551-1555
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Lightwave Technology
Volume	34
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2016.2517086
Publication status	Published - 2016 Mar 15

Keywords

4K/8K UHD display
ballpoint-pen interconnect
multilevel modulation
plastic optical fiber
radio over fiber

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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