GI-POF Transmission At Different Bit Rates, Fiber Lengths and Wavelengths: 1310 and 1550 Nm

The paper demonstrates the transmission of variable bit rates NRZ streams over different lengths of perfluorinated graded-index plastic optical fiber GI-POF at wavelengths of 1550 and 1310 nm. Specifically, at <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\lambda$</tex-math></inline-formula> = 1550 nm, 16, 14 and 12 Gbps of NRZ transmissions are demonstrated for 50 m GI-POF. Furthermore, at <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\lambda$</tex-math></inline-formula> = 1310 nm, 10 and 8 Gbps NRZ transmissions are demonstrated for distances of 50, 100 and 200 m. The performance is evaluated for realized transmissions in terms of received bit-error rate versus transmitted optical power and is compared to back to back performance.