Optical fiber communication experiment at 5 Gbit/sec
Abstract
An optical single mode fiber transmission system which operates in the 0.85 micron wavelength region is investigated. A 500-m single mode fiber is used, and the power is coupled by mounting the laser butt-end to the fiber, giving a minimum loss of 10 dB. A Si-avalanche photodiode with an inpulse-response width of 210 psec (FWHM), a 10 Gbit/sec and a gate built from GaAs MESFETs are employed by the receiver. The transmitter, fiber, and receiver design are described, and bit-error-rate measurement values of less than 10 to the -9th are found, which prove the feasibility of optical fiber transmission at 5 Gbit/sec.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- November 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1364/AO.20.003853
- Bibcode:
- 1981ApOpt..20.3853T
- Keywords:
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- Fiber Optics;
- Heterojunction Devices;
- Laser Modes;
- Optical Communication;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Field Effect Transistors;
- Gallium Arsenides;
- Instrument Errors;
- Laser Outputs;
- Multichannel Communication;
- Schottky Diodes;
- Communications and Radar;
- OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS;
- FIBER OPTICS