A novel local area network emulation technique on passive optical networks

Author

Nadarajah, Nishaanthan ; Attygalle, Manik ; Nirmalathas, Ampalavanapillai ; Wong, Elaine

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Vic., Australia

Volume

17

Issue

5

fYear

2005

fDate

5/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1121

Lastpage

1123

Abstract

An optical layer solution for intercommunication between customers in a passive optical network by placing a narrow-band fiber Bragg grating close to the star coupler in the feeder fiber is proposed. The local area network (LAN) emulation technique is experimentally demonstrated with 1.25-Gb/s upstream transmission to the central office and with 155 Mb/s customer data transmission that is multiplexed on a 5-GHz radio frequency carrier. Experimental results show that this technique has the potential to support high data rate LAN traffic while imposing minimal penalty on downstream and upstream transmissions.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; optical fibre LAN; optical fibre couplers; subcarrier multiplexing; telecommunication traffic; 1.25 Gbit/s; 155 Mbit/s; 5 GHz; LAN; fiber coupler; local area network emulation; narrowband fiber Bragg grating; passive optical networks; radio frequency carrier multiplexing; Central office; Data communication; LAN emulation; Local area networks; Narrowband; Optical coupling; Optical fiber LAN; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber networks; Passive optical networks; Fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs); local area network (LAN) emulation; passive optical networks (PONs); subcarrier multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.845736

Filename

1424120