Designing wavelength-division-multiplexed optical access networks using reflective photonic components

Author

Kehayas, Efstratios

Author_Institution

CONSTELEX Technol. Enablers, Acharnai, Greece

fYear

2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Optical access networks compatible with PON and WDM approaches are presented exploiting new generation of photonic components and novel designs for the OLT and ONU. The OLT design is based on a centralized light source that powers arrays of reflective modulators. On the other end, the ONU can achieve optical cancellation of downstream data and enable re-use of the same wavelength channel for high-speed upstream transmission in PONs. Combination of reflective colourless modulators and downstream cancellation techniques can enable next generation high-capacity, scalable and cost-effective WDM-based PONs.

Keywords

optical communication equipment; optical fibre subscriber loops; optical modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; OLT design; centralized light source; cost-effective WDM-based PON; downstream data optical cancellation techniques; high-speed upstream transmission; optical line terminal; optical network unit; power arrays; reflective colourless modulators; reflective photonic components; wavelength channel reuse; wavelength-division-multiplexed optical access network design; High speed optical techniques; Light sources; Optical arrays; Optical design; Optical devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical modulation; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; Wavelength division multiplexing; Fabry-Perot filters; optical fibre communications; passive optical networks; reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2010 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7799-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-7797-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2010.5549272

Filename

5549272