Towards converged broadband wired and wireless in-home optical networks

In this paper we present an in-home optical network infrastructure based on 1 mm core diameter graded-index plastic optical fibre. A combined transmission of a multi-gigabit baseband data stream, based on discrete multitone modulation, and a radio frequency signal, based on ultra wideband technology, is shown. A detailed experimental study on the performance of the two types of signals in the combined transmission is carried out in order to demonstrate the feasibility of a converged wired and wireless in-home network using plastic optical fibre.