The use of standard 1-mm core-diameter step-index plastic optical fiber (SI-POF) has so far been mainly limited to distances of up to 100 m and bit-rates in the order of 100 Mbit/s. By use of digital signal processing, transmission performance of such optical links can be improved. Among the different technical solutions proposed, a promising one is based on the use of discrete multitone (DMT) modulation, directly applied to intensity-modulated, direct detection (IM/DD) SI-POF links. This paper presents an overview of DMT over SI-POF and demonstrates how DMT can be used to improve transmission rate in such IM/DD systems. The achievable capacity of an SI-POF channel is first analyzed theoretically and then validated by experimental results. Additionally, first experimental demonstrations of a real-time DMT over SI-POF system are presented and discussed.

Discrete Multitone Modulation for Maximizing Transmission Rate in Step-Index Plastic Optical Fibres / S. C., JEFFREY LEE; Florian, Breyer; Sebastian, Randel; Gaudino, Roberto; Bosco, Gabriella; Andreas, Bluschke; Michael, Matthews; Philipp, Rietzsch; Rainer, Steglich; HENRIE P. A., VAN DEN BOOM; ANTONIUS M. J., Koonen. - In: JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY. - ISSN 0733-8724. - 27:11(2009), pp. 1503-1513. [10.1109/JLT.2009.2013480]

Discrete Multitone Modulation for Maximizing Transmission Rate in Step-Index Plastic Optical Fibres

GAUDINO, ROBERTO;BOSCO, GABRIELLA;
2009

Abstract

The use of standard 1-mm core-diameter step-index plastic optical fiber (SI-POF) has so far been mainly limited to distances of up to 100 m and bit-rates in the order of 100 Mbit/s. By use of digital signal processing, transmission performance of such optical links can be improved. Among the different technical solutions proposed, a promising one is based on the use of discrete multitone (DMT) modulation, directly applied to intensity-modulated, direct detection (IM/DD) SI-POF links. This paper presents an overview of DMT over SI-POF and demonstrates how DMT can be used to improve transmission rate in such IM/DD systems. The achievable capacity of an SI-POF channel is first analyzed theoretically and then validated by experimental results. Additionally, first experimental demonstrations of a real-time DMT over SI-POF system are presented and discussed.
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