Misalignment-insensitive SNR with ballpoint-pen interconnect of GI POF

A. Inoue; Yasuhiro Koike

Misalignment-insensitive SNR with ballpoint-pen interconnect of GI POF

Department of Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics

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Abstract

It is demonstrated that ballpoint-pen interconnect of graded-index plastic optical fibers (GI POFs) can allow for higher SNR for fiber-axis misalignment which cannot be tolerated for conventional butt-coupling of glass multimode fiber (MMF). In an MMF link with a vertical surface emitting laser, we evaluated coupling loss and relative intensity noise for ball-lens-coupled GI POFs which was developed with ballpoint-pen technology. The results show that the ball-lens coupling can significantly reduce coupling loss and transmission noise induced by fiber misalignment through expansion and collimation of output beam with ball lens. These properties of the ballpoint-pen interconnect can reduce required lanes using multilevel modulation scheme without additional noise-suppression components, paving the way for thinner 4K/8K interfaces for consumer applications.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	24th International Conference on Plastic Optical Fibers, POF 2015 - Conference Proceedings
Publisher	International Conference on Plastic Optical Fibers
Pages	49-52
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	24th International Conference on Plastic Optical Fibers, POF 2015 - Nuremberg, Germany Duration: 2015 Sep 22 → 2015 Sep 24

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Other	24th International Conference on Plastic Optical Fibers, POF 2015
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Nuremberg
Period	15/9/22 → 15/9/24

Keywords

Ballpoint-pen interconnect
Modal noise
Reflection noise

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Materials Chemistry
Polymers and Plastics

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Misalignment-insensitive SNR with ballpoint-pen interconnect of GI POF

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