TY - JOUR
T1 - High-Speed Graded-Index Plastic Optical Fibers and Their Simple Interconnects for 4K/8K Video Transmission
AU - Koike, Yasuhiro
AU - Inoue, Azusa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2016/3/15
Y1 - 2016/3/15
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - 4K/8K UHD display
KW - ballpoint-pen interconnect
KW - multilevel modulation
KW - plastic optical fiber
KW - radio over fiber
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U2 - 10.1109/JLT.2016.2517086
DO - 10.1109/JLT.2016.2517086
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84963782940
SN - 0733-8724
VL - 34
SP - 1551
EP - 1555
JO - Journal of Lightwave Technology
JF - Journal of Lightwave Technology
IS - 6
M1 - 7378834
ER -