Performance improvement by post-amplifying upstream/downstream signal in WDM passive optical network

Author

Kachhatiya, Vivek ; Prince, Shanthi

Author_Institution

Department of Electronics and Communication, SRM University, Kattankulathur-603203, Tamil Nadu, India

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

We simulated the wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network (WDM-PON) prototype with 16 pair of wavelengths. 16 downstream wavelength multiplexed to down streaming 40Gb/s data from optical line terminal (OLT) to optical network unit (ONU) via 1∶16 splitter at the remote node (RN). 16 upstream wavelength are combined at RN from ONU´s and forwarded to the OLT. Amplifier section is placed only at the OLT side hence it pre-amplifying downstream signal and post-amplifying upstream signal. Upstream and downstream results are investigated and analyzed using simulated analyzer and it is found that upstream has better bit error rate (BER) and quality factor (Q-Factor) than the downstream signal.

Keywords

Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical network units; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Prototypes; Wavelength division multiplexing; Optical amplifier section; Optical communication; Passive optical network; WDM-Mux/Demux; WDM-PON;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advances in Communication and Computing Technologies (ICACACT), 2014 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7318-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EIC.2015.7230708

Filename

7230708