
Optical Communication over Plastic Optical Fibers
Integrated Optical Receiver Technology
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 30. October 2012
Book
Hardback
XX, 144 pages
978-3-642-30387-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Series
Edition
2013 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XX, 144 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
418 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-642-30387-6 (9783642303876)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-30388-3
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Persons
Mohamed Atef received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communications from Assiut University, Egypt, in 2000 and 2005 respectively. From 2006 to 2007 he was in Czech Technical University in Prague, Department of Microelectronics, working on the improvement of optical properties of quantum dots. He received the Ph.D. from Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Electrodynamics, Microwave and Circuit Engineering in 2010 then served as a post-doctoral researcher up to 2012. Since 2010 he is an assistant professor at Electrical Engineering Dept., Assiut University, Egypt. His current research interests are in the area of optoelectronic integrated circuit and communications over plastic optical fiber. He is author of the Springer book 'Optical Communication over Plastic Optical Fibers: Integrated Optical Receiver Technology'. Furthermore, he is author and co -author of around 35 scientific publications. Since 2012 he is senior member IEEE.
/>Dr. Horst Zimmermann, received the diploma in Physics in 1984 from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, and the Dr.-Ing. degree in the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS-B), Erlangen, Germany in 1991. Then, Dr. Zimmermann was an Alexander-von-Humboldt Research-Fellow at Duke University, Durham, N.C., working on diffusion in Si, GaAs, and InP until 1992. In 1993, he joined the Chair for Semiconductor Electronics at Kiel University, Kiel, Germany, where he lectured optoelectronics and worked on optoelectronic integration. Since 2000 he is full professor for Electronic Circuit Engineering at Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria. His main interests are in design and characterization of analog and nanometer CMOS circuits as well as optoelectronic integrated CMOS and BiCMOS circuits. He is author of the Springer books 'Integrated Silicon Optoelectronics' and 'Silicon Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits' as well as coauthor of "Highly Sensitive Optical Receivers"and "Optical Communication over Plastic Optical Fibers". In addition he is author and co-author of more than 400 publications. In 2002 he became Senior Member IEEE.
Content
Multilevel Signaling.- Equalization Techniques.- High-Speed Transmission over Step-Index PMMA Plastic Optical Fibers.- Transimpedance Amplifier Theory.- Integrated Optical Receiver for Multilevel Transmission over PMMA SI-POF.- Integrated Optical Receiver with an Integrated Equalizer for SI-POF.