First Experimental Transmission over 50 m GI-POF at 40 Gb/s for Variable Launching Offsets

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

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Schöllmann, Stefan; Rosenkranz, Werner (Chair for Communications, University of Kiel, Kaiserstrasse 2, 24143 Kiel, Germany)
Wree, Christoph; Joshi, Abhay (Discovery Semiconductors Inc., 119 Silvia Street, Ewing, NJ 08628 USA)

Abstract:
We show by BER measurements the first 40 Gb/s transmission over 50m GI-POF. The robustness towards launching offsets, polarisation changes and fibre bending is investigated for MMF and POF with 33GHz multi-mode coupled photo detector.