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Optical Communication over Plastic Optical Fibers

Integrated Optical Receiver Technology

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Mohamed Atef

    1. , Institute of Electrodynamics,, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

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  2. Horst Zimmermann

    1. , Institute of Electrodynamics,, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

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  • Presents the basics and the state-of-the-art of high data rate transmission of plastic optical fibers
  • Gives a contribution to multilevel communication
  • Provides newest results for multi-level data transmission over plastic optical fibers
  • Describes newest results for binary data transmission over POF with equalizer
  • Displays the design of linear and highly sensitive optical receivers for POF data transmission
  • Shows numerous detailed circuit diagrams and plots of measured results to allow a fast comprehension
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences (SSOS, volume 172)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Mohamed Atef, Horst Zimmermann
    Pages 1-3

  3. Multilevel Signaling

    • Mohamed Atef, Horst Zimmermann
    Pages 5-22

  4. Equalization Techniques

    • Mohamed Atef, Horst Zimmermann
    Pages 23-40

  5. High-Speed Transmission over Step-Index PMMA Plastic Optical Fibers

    • Mohamed Atef, Horst Zimmermann
    Pages 41-59

  6. Integrated Photodiode

    • Mohamed Atef, Horst Zimmermann
    Pages 61-68

  7. Transimpedance Amplifier

    • Mohamed Atef, Horst Zimmermann
    Pages 69-86

  8. Integrated Optical Receiver and Multilevel Transmission over PMMA SI-POF

    • Mohamed Atef, Horst Zimmermann
    Pages 87-115

  9. Equalizer Implementations for SI-POF

    • Mohamed Atef, Horst Zimmermann
    Pages 117-128

  10. Conclusions

    • Mohamed Atef, Horst Zimmermann
    Pages 129-130

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 131-144
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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.

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  • , Institute of Electrodynamics,, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Mohamed Atef, Horst Zimmermann

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