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

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

doi:doi:10.1117/1.OE.51.1.015006

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

Opt. Eng. 51, 015006 (Jan 31, 2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.1.015006

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Chi-Wai Chow, Ling-Gang Yang, Jiun-Yu Sung, and Sung-Ping Huang

National Chiao Tung University, Department of Photonics and Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Chien-Hung Yeh

Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Information and Communications Research Laboratories, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Ci-Ling Pan

National Tsing Hua University, Department of Physics and Institute of Photonics Technologies, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Gary Chou

Prime Optical Fiber Corporation, Chu-Nan, Miao-Li County, Taiwan

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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Received Aug 24, 2011
Revised Nov 18, 2011
Published online Jan 31, 2012

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