Electronics Letters · 1998 · 15 citations · 0 references
EngineeringCommunicationElectrical EngineeringOpticsOptoelectronicsPhotonicsFiber OpticsFiber-optic CommunicationLight-emitting DiodesOptical Communication SystemsOptical FibersOptical SourcesBit Error RateBit-error Rate AnalysisFiber Optic Communication SystemsHigh-speed TransmissionOptical Communication LinksOptical TransmissionOptical Transmission SystemsPlastic Optical Fibers
A 660 nm resonant cavity light emitting diode was used to transmit an optical signal through a 30 m long plastic optical fibre. To simulate a low-cost optical transmission system, the light was coupled directly from the device into the fibre and an Si-diode without additional amplification was used for detection. A 27–1 pseudo-random bit stream was transmitted at a data rate of 250 Mbit/s achieving a bit error rate of 3 × 10–10.