Plastic optical fiber technology for reliable home networking: Overview and results of the EU project POF-ALL

Ingo Möllers; Dieter Jäger; Roberto Gaudino; Alessandro Nocivelli; Hans Kragl; Olaf Ziemann; Norbert Weber; Ton Koonen; Carlo Lezzi; Andreas Bluschke; Sebastian Randel

doi:10.1109/MCOM.2009.5181893

Plastic optical fiber technology for reliable home networking: Overview and results of the EU project POF-ALL

Ingo Möllers, Dieter Jäger, Roberto Gaudino, Alessandro Nocivelli, Hans Kragl, Olaf Ziemann, Norbert Weber, Ton Koonen, Carlo Lezzi, Andreas Bluschke, Sebastian Randel

Electro-Optical Communication

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Abstract

The rising performance of broadband connections for residential users, particularly in conjunction with fiber to the home, will present a new challenge for telecom operators in the short and medium terms: how to deliver the high bit rate digital signals with high quality-of-service to all consumer devices scattered inside the building of final users? Among the many different solutions for the home network, we review in this article the use of polymer optical fibers for short-reach and high-capacity optical communications for residential customer premises. POF is an easy-to-install, low-cost, and eye-safe solution for these networks, with the potential of being future-proof. In this article the state of the art in POF technology is presented by summarizing significant results achieved in the European project POF-ALL. Data transmission rates of more than 1 Gb/s over 50 + m and 100 Mb/s over 200 + m of standard step-index POF have been shown.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	58-68
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE Communications Magazine
Volume	47
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2009.5181893
Publication status	Published - 25 Aug 2009

Funding

This work was supported by the European Commission (EC) in the Framework Programme 6, Information Society Technologies, Specific Targeted Research Project (STReP no.: 27549) POF-ALL (Paving the Optical Future with Affordable Lightning-Fast Links).

Keywords

Bandwidth
Distance measurement
Optical fiber cables
Optical fiber devices
Optical fiber networks
Optical fibers

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