μlED-Based Single-Wavelength Bi-directional POF Link with 10 Gb/s Aggregate Data Rate

Xin Li; Nikolaos Bamiedakis; Jinlong Wei; Jonathan J.D. McKendry; Enyuan Xie; Ricardo Ferreira; Erdan Gu; Martin D. Dawson; Richard V. Penty; Ian H. White

doi:10.1109/JLT.2015.2443984

μlED-Based Single-Wavelength Bi-directional POF Link with 10 Gb/s Aggregate Data Rate

Xin Li, Nikolaos Bamiedakis, Jinlong Wei, Jonathan J.D. McKendry, Enyuan Xie, Ricardo Ferreira, Erdan Gu, Martin D. Dawson, Richard V. Penty, Ian H. White

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Abstract

We report record 10 Gb/s bi-directional data transmission over a single 10 m SI-POF, by employing blue microlight-emitting diodes (μLEDs) at a single wavelength, APD receivers, and a PAM-32 modulation scheme. The implementation of 10 Gb/s LED-POF links takes advantage of the bi-directional configuration, which doubles the overall channel capacity, and APDs, which provide an enhanced link power budget owing to their improved sensitivity compared with conventional p-i-n photodiodes. Moreover, the high spectral efficiency of the PAM-32 modulation scheme employed, together with equalization techniques, enable the full utilization of the link bandwidth and the transmission of data rates higher than those obtained with conventional on-off keying. Simulation and experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of such a bi-directional link, and simultaneous 5 Gb/s data transmission is realized in each direction, achieving an aggregate data rate of 10 Gb/s with a BER < 10^-3. The crosstalk penalty between the two directions of the link is measured to be less than 0.5 dB.

Original language	English
Article number	7124413
Pages (from-to)	3571-3576
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Lightwave Technology
Volume	33
Issue number	17
Early online date	16 Jun 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2015.2443984
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2015

Keywords

APD
Bi-directional communication
Micro-LED
Plastic optical fiber (POF)
Pulse amplitude modulation (PAM)

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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