High-Speed Communications Over Polymer Optical Fibers for In-Building Cabling and Home Networking

This paper focuses on high-speed cabling using polymer optical fibers (POF) in home networking. In particular, we report about the results obtained in the POF-ALL European Project, which is relevant to the Sixth Framework Program, and after two years of the European Project POF-PLUS, which is releva...

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Published in:IEEE photonics journal 2010-06, Vol.2 (3), p.347-358
Main Authors: Nespola, A, Abrate, S, Gaudino, R, Zerna, C, Offenbeck, B, Weber, N
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amplitude modulation
Analog-digital conversion
Communication cables
Communications
Digital
Ethernet
Focusing
Frequency division multiplexing
High speed
home networks
Modulation
Multiplexing
OFDM
Optical fiber cables
Optical fibers
Optical polymers
Optical pulses
Photonics
polymer optical fibers (POF)
Pulse modulation
Transmission
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Summary:This paper focuses on high-speed cabling using polymer optical fibers (POF) in home networking. In particular, we report about the results obtained in the POF-ALL European Project, which is relevant to the Sixth Framework Program, and after two years of the European Project POF-PLUS, which is relevant to the Seventh Framework Program, focusing on their research activities about the use of poly-metyl-metha-acrilate step-index optical fibers for home applications. In particular, for that which concerns POF-ALL, we will describe eight-level pulse amplitude modulation (8-PAM) and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) approaches for 100-Mb/s transmission over a target distance of 300 m, while for that which concerns POF-PLUS, we will describe a fully digital and a mixed analog-digital solution, both based on intensity modulation direct detection, for transmitting 1 Gb/s over a target distance of 50 m. The ultimate experimental results from the POF-ALL project will be given, while for POF-PLUS, which is still ongoing, we will only show our most recent preliminary results.
ISSN:1943-0655
1943-0647
DOI:10.1109/JPHOT.2010.2048202