11 Gbps Data Transmission through 100m of Perfluorinated Graded Index Polymer Optical Fiber

摘要

Low-loss graded-index perfluorinated plastic optical fibers (GI PF POFs) are investigated for 100 m distance multi-Gb/s data transmission in premise nteworks. short-reach telecom, and computer interconnections. Several low-cost. uncooled, unisolated data communication sources. namely VCSELs at 0.83 and Fabry-Perot laser sources at 1.3 #mu#m, have been tested, demonstrating that such POFs can support high-speed data rates of 9 Gb/s over 100 m, respectively. Although these results have been obtained using restricted launch, differential mode delay (DMD) measurements show that large restricted bandwidths can be achieved in a broad wavelength range with large alignment tolerance of the sources.