Design and characterization of large-core optical fiber for Light Peak applications

Chi-Wai Chow; Ling-Gang Yang; Jiun-Yu Sung; Sung-Ping Huang; Chien Hung Yeh; Ci-Ling Pan; Gary Chou

doi:10.1117/1.OE.51.1.015006

31 January 2012 Design and characterization of large-core optical fiber for Light Peak applications

Chi-Wai Chow, Ling-Gang Yang, Jiun-Yu Sung, Sung-Ping Huang, Chien Hung Yeh, Ci-Ling Pan, Gary Chou

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 51, Issue 1, 015006 (January 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.1.015006

Abstract

Bandwidth demand for transferring data among different consumer electronic products is increasing rapidly. Due to issues of high propagation loss, electromagnetic interference, and limited bandwidth-distance product of the present copper-based electrical cables, consumer electronic devices may not provide the bandwidth required for future high-capacity applications. The Intel Corporation has proposed Light Peak technology, allowing data transfer between electronic devices at 10 Gb/s in optical domain. To establish a reliable Light Peak connection, robust optical fiber is highly required. In this paper, we discuss the fabrication and characterization of a new type of 80-μm large-core optical fiber. We perform 10 Gb/s bit-error-rate measurements using 850 and 1550-nm transceivers. The results show that even though we have enlarged the fiber core diameter by 60% (from 50 to 80 μm) in order to increase the laser-to-fiber alignment tolerance, transmission bandwidth and distance required by Light Peak can still be achieved in this new type of large-core optical fiber.

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Chi-Wai Chow, Ling-Gang Yang, Jiun-Yu Sung, Sung-Ping Huang, Chien Hung Yeh, Ci-Ling Pan, and Gary Chou "Design and characterization of large-core optical fiber for Light Peak applications," Optical Engineering 51(1), 015006 (31 January 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.1.015006

Published: 31 January 2012

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