REAM intensity modulator-enabled colorless transmission of real-time optical OFDM signals for WDM-PONs

Author

Hugues-Salas, E. ; Giddings, R.P. ; Jin, X.Q. ; Quinlan, Terence ; Hong, Yiguang ; Walker, Stuart ; Tang, J.M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng., Bangor Univ., Bangor, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

16-20 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Reflective electro-absorption modulators are, for the first time, incorporated in real-time optical OFDM (OOFDM) transceivers with online adaptive bit and power loading. Colorless OOFDM transmissions of 10.5Gb/s over 25km SSMF in simple IMDD systems are experimentally demonstrated with >5dB improved receiver sensitivities compared to RSOAs.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; electro-optical modulation; optical transceivers; passive optical networks; wavelength division multiplexing; IMDD system; REAM intensity modulator; SSMF; WDM-PON; bit rate 10.5 Gbit/s; colorless OOFDM transmission; passive optical networks; real time optical OFDM signal; real-time optical OFDM transceiver; receiver sensitivity; reflective electro-absorption modulators; standard single mode fibre; wavelength division multiplexing; Adaptive optics; Modulation; Optical attenuators; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Type

conf

Filename

6706065