Distribution of Broadband Services Over 1-mm Core Diameter Plastic Optical Fiber for Point-to-Multipoint In-Home Networks

作者：Shi Yan^*; Okonkwo Chigo; Visani Davide; Tangdiongga Eduward; Koonen Ton

来源：Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2013, 31(6): 874-881.

DOI：10.1109/JLT.2013.2238888

• Home communication systems
• plastic optical fiber
• point-to-multipoint

This paper presents a point-to-multipoint (P2MP) in-home optical network infrastructure based on 1-mm core diameter plastic optical fiber (POF). By employing passive POF splitters, converged broadband wired and wireless service transmission over a P2MP POF infrastructure is demonstrated. A gross 2.2 Gb/s fractional discrete multitone (DMT) and a 528-MHz ultra wideband (UWB) wireless signal distribution simultaneously to four end-users are successfully achieved with BER %26lt; 10(-3) and EVM %26lt; 15.5%, respectively. Up to 50 m transmission distance is achieved using off-the-shelf optical components. This feasibility study on all-optical P2MP infrastructures presents a promising low-cost solution for high-speed in-home broadband communication.

• 出版日期2013-3-15