Optical Communication over Plastic Optical Fibers: Integrated Optical Receiver Technology

✍ Scribed by Mohamed Atef, Horst Zimmermann (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 156
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences 172
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents high-performance data transmission over plastic optical fibers (POF) using integrated optical receivers having good properties with multilevel modulation, i.e. a higher sensitivity and higher data rate transmission over a longer plastic optical fiber length. Integrated optical receivers and transmitters with high linearity are introduced for multilevel communication. For binary high-data rate transmission over plastic optical fibers, an innovative receiver containing an equalizer is described leading also to a high performance of a plastic optical fiber link.
The cheap standard PMMA SI-POF (step-index plastic optical fiber) has the lowest bandwidth and the highest attenuation among multimode fibers. This small bandwidth limits the maximum data rate which can be transmitted through plastic optical fibers. To overcome the problem of the plastic optical fibers high transmission loss, very sensitive receivers must be used to increase the transmitted length over POF. The plastic optical fiber limited bandwidth problem can be decreased by using multilevel signaling like multilevel pulse amplitude modulation or by using an equalizer for binary data transmission.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Multilevel Signaling....Pages 5-22
Equalization Techniques....Pages 23-40
High-Speed Transmission over Step-Index PMMA Plastic Optical Fibers....Pages 41-59
Integrated Photodiode....Pages 61-68
Transimpedance Amplifier....Pages 69-86
Integrated Optical Receiver and Multilevel Transmission over PMMA SI-POF....Pages 87-115
Equalizer Implementations for SI-POF....Pages 117-128
Conclusions....Pages 129-130
Back Matter....Pages 131-144

✦ Subjects

Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices;Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering;Electronic Circuits and Devices;Applied and Technical Physics;Optics and Electrodynamics