Status and recent results from the POF-ALL EU project: large-core plastic fibers for low cost, high-speed short reach applications

Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Gaudino, Roberto (Istituto Superiore Mario Boella and Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Nocivelli, Alessandro (Luceat, Italy)
Kragl, Hans (DieMount GmbH, Germany)
Ziemann, Olaf (Plastic Optical Fiber Application Center, Germany)
Weber, Norbert (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany)
Jaeger, Dieter (Universitt Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Koonen, Ton (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
Lezzi, Carlo (Fastweb SpA, Italy)
Bluschke, Andreas (Teleconnect GmbH, Germany)
Randell, Sebastian (Siemens AG, Germany)

Abstract:
We present an overview of the EU STREP project POF-ALL, aimed at developing new low-cost high-speed short reach optical transmission systems based on large-core Plastic Optical Fibers (POF).