Title :
Wavelength-transparent long-reach-high-split TWsDM-PON utilized by a non-gated parallel cascade of linear SOAs
Author :
Bonk, R. ; Schmuck, H. ; Deppisch, Bernhard ; Poehlmann, Wolfgang ; Pfeiffer, Thomas
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Stuttgart, Germany
Abstract :
We demonstrate the first long-reach and high-split TWsDM-PON utilizing a non-gated parallel cascade of linear SOAs. A fiber reach of up to 100 km and up to 2048 customers are achieved in non-wavelength routed outside plants.
Keywords :
passive optical networks; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; linear SOAs; nongated parallel cascade; nonwavelength routed outside plants; wavelength-transparent long-reach-high-split TWsDM-PON; Bit error rate; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical network units; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6963835
