A fast and intelligent automatic power control for a GPON burst-mode optical transmitter

Author

Verhulst, Dieter ; Bauwelinck, Johan ; Martens, Yves ; Qiu, Xing-Zhi ; Vandewege, Jan

Author_Institution

Ghent Univ., Gent, Belgium

Volume

17

Issue

11

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2439

Lastpage

2441

Abstract

A generic 1.25-Gb/s burst-mode optical transmitter with an intelligent automatic power control has been developed and tested successfully. The chip quickly adjusts the optical power during initialization from safe preset values to the required high and low levels with a guaranteed extinction ratio, and accurately tracks level drifts during data transmission. The measured performance complies with the ITU-T gigabit passive optical network standards including the power leveling mechanism option.

Keywords

intelligent control; optical fibre networks; optical transmitters; power control; telecommunication control; 1.25 Gbit/s; GPON burst-mode optical transmitter; ITU-T gigabit passive optical network standards; extinction ratio; intelligent automatic power control; Automatic testing; Data communication; Extinction ratio; Intelligent control; Measurement standards; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Power control; Power measurement; Semiconductor device measurement; Automatic power control (APC); burst-mode laser driver; burst-mode optical transmitter; gigabit passive optical network (GPON);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.857577

Filename

1522346