• DocumentCode
    1584337
  • Title

    Maximum reach of long-reach RSOA-based WDM PON employing remote EDFA

  • Author

    Hong, U.H. ; Cho, K.Y. ; Takushima, Y. ; Chung, Y.C.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We investigate the effects of the gain and position of the remote EDFA in a long-reach RSOA-based WDM PON. Using this result, we also estimate the maximum transmission reach limited by Rayleigh backscattering.
  • Keywords
    Rayleigh scattering; backscatter; erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; passive optical networks; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; Er; Rayleigh backscattering; erbium-doped fiber amplifier; long-reach RSOA-based WDM PON; passive optical network; remote EDFA; Backscatter; Crosstalk; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Gain; Optical fiber polarization; Passive optical networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • ISSN
    pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0213-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5875318