1 Gbit/s transmission over step-index plastic optical fiber using an optical receiver with an integrated equalizer

摘要

A single chip optical receiver with an integrated large-diameter photodiode, transimpedance amplifier, two stages active equalizer, post amplifier and 50 OMEGA driver is used for gigabit transmission over PMMA step plastic optical fiber (SI-POF). The large-diameter photodiode with an antireflection coating optimized for red light. The integrated equalizer enables the presented optical receiver to reach 1 Gbit/s over 50 m SI-POF at bit error ratio of 10~(-6). An error free (<10~(-9)) 1 Gbit/s data rate over 40 m standard PMMA step-index plastic optical fiber is also achieved.