Experimental Demonstration of Power over Fiber for Power Grid Application

In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate the standard single mode fiber based PoF system with 10W optical power and 155 Mb/s data rate transmitted simultaneously over 1 km. The high-speed data signal is generated from an commercial optical module with combination of the optical switch applied in the Power Grid infrastructure. The experimental results show the potential application of PoF technology for Power Grid to provide the the low-power consumption inline performance monitoring or electrical power supply under emergency rescue etc.