Record high-speed short-range transmission over 1 mm core diameter POF employing DMT modulation

We report multigigabit/second transmission capacity in 1 mm core diameter graded index plastic optical fiber (POF) exploiting off-the-shelf low-cost components and discrete multitone (DMT) modulation. Transmission capacities of 10.1 Gbits/s×15 m and 12.7 Gbits/s×3 m are achieved for average bit-error rates less than 10−3.