Very high speed intra-office optical link experiments for 0.4- and 1.6-Gbit/s trunk lines

Very high speed optical links are studied. Applicable areas for systems using light-emitting diodes (LED'S) or laser diodes (LD's) with short transmission length are clarified. A new type differential mode inversion (DMI) decoder is proposed and it is shown that the DMI code is suitable as the line code for very high speed intra-office optical links. By using DMI code. a 400-Mbit/s information rate optical transmission experiment employing a 1.3-μm InGaAsP LED and a 0.5-km graded-index multimode optical fiber (GIF) as well as a 1.6-Gbit/s information rate optical transmission experiment using a 1.3-μm InGaAsP/InP Fabry-Perot-type LD and a 10-km single-mode optical fiber (SMF) are carried out. These results show that the feasibility of a 400-Mbit/s intra-office optical link using the LED and GIF, as well as a 1.6-Gbit/s intra-office optical link using the LD and SMF, are confirmed and this optical transmission technology has high-speed performance up to 3.2 Gbit/s.