Optical Communication over Plastic Optical Fibers
Subtitle: Integrated Optical Receiver Technology
By: by Mohamed Atef, Horst Zimmermann
Contributors: Zimmermann, Horst; SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences -- 172
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9783642303883
Subjects: Physics; Electronic Circuits and Devices; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices; Optics and Electrodynamics; RF and Optical Engineering Microwaves; Microwaves; Applied and Technical Physics
Description: This book presents high-performance data transmission over plastic optical fibers (POF) using integrated optical receivers having good properties with multilevel modulation, i.e. a higher sensitivity and higher data rate transmission over a longer plastic optical fiber length. Integrated optical receivers and transmitters with high linearity are introduced for multilevel communication. For binary high-data rate transmission over plastic optical fibers, an innovative receiver containing an equalizer is described leading also to a high performance of a plastic optical fiber link. <br>The cheap standard PMMA SI-POF (step-index plastic optical fiber) has the lowest bandwidth and the highest attenuation among multimode fibers. This small bandwidth limits the maximum data rate which can be transmitted through plastic optical fibers. To overcome the problem of the plastic optical fibers high transmission loss, very sensitive receivers must be used to increase the transmitted length over POF. The plastic optical fiber limited bandwidth problem can be decreased by using multilevel signaling like multilevel pulse amplitude modulation or by using an equalizer for binary data transmission. <br>
Table of contents: title: Multilevel Signaling; title: Equalization Techniques; title: High-Speed Transmission over Step-Index PMMA Plastic Optical Fibers; title: Transimpedance Amplifier Theory; title: Integrated Optical Receiver for Multilevel Transmission over PMMA SI-POF; title: Integrated Optical Receiver with an Integrated Equalizer for SI-POF.