TY - JOUR
T1 - 4 × 10 Gb/s high-speed link over thin GI 50/125 plastic optical fibers and compact optical sub-assembly
AU - Schlepple, Norbert
AU - Nishigaki, Michihiko
AU - Uemura, Hiroshi
AU - Obara, Kei
AU - Furuyama, Hideto
AU - Sugizaki, Yoshiaki
AU - Shibata, Hideki
AU - Koike, Yasuhiro
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received May 29, 2012; revised June 21, 2012; accepted July 12, 2012. Date of publication July 19, 2012; date of current version September 12, 2012. This work was supported in part by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science through the Funding Program for World-Leading Innovation R&D on Science and Technology (FIRST Program).
Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - We introduce an extremely thin 50/125 perfluorinated graded-index plastic optical fiber (POF) and its application in a 4 × 10 Gb/s optical link including our optical subassembly (OSA). We outline the main characteristics of the POF before the introduction of the fibers to our already established OSA is explained. Particularly low attenuation with error-free transmission down to a bending radius of 1 mm is presented in comparison to a quartz optical fiber. Furthermore eye diagrams of all four channels after 5 m over POF at 10 Gb/s are presented. Bit error rate for all channels is less than 10-12 and remains constant when another channel is being driven simultaneously.
AB - We introduce an extremely thin 50/125 perfluorinated graded-index plastic optical fiber (POF) and its application in a 4 × 10 Gb/s optical link including our optical subassembly (OSA). We outline the main characteristics of the POF before the introduction of the fibers to our already established OSA is explained. Particularly low attenuation with error-free transmission down to a bending radius of 1 mm is presented in comparison to a quartz optical fiber. Furthermore eye diagrams of all four channels after 5 m over POF at 10 Gb/s are presented. Bit error rate for all channels is less than 10-12 and remains constant when another channel is being driven simultaneously.
KW - Active optical cable
KW - Graded-index
KW - Optical subassembly
KW - Optoelectronic ferrule
KW - Plastic optical fiber
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U2 - 10.1109/LPT.2012.2209636
DO - 10.1109/LPT.2012.2209636
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84866398449
SN - 1041-1135
VL - 24
SP - 1670
EP - 1672
JO - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
JF - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
IS - 19
M1 - 6244852
ER -