Comparison of CAP and DFT-spread DMT for high speed transmission over 50m SI-POF

Abstract

Over the recent years many modulation schemes were proposed for laser based high-speed short-range transmission over step-index plastic optical fiber (SI-POF). Among these schemes, CAP and DFT-Spread DMT demonstrated a good performance for intensity modulation direct-detection transmission via SI-POF. In this work, for the first time, we report on the progress and initial experimentation regarding the comparison of CAP and DFT-Spread DMT for transmission over 50m of 1-mm SI-POF. It is shown that CAP and DFT-Spread DMT achieve a comparable transmission rate for a given bit error rate over the same experimental configuration.