Hybrid passive optical network enabled by mode-division-multiplexing

Author

Juhao Li ; Tao Hu ; Fang Ren ; Paikun Zhu ; Qi Mo ; Yongqi He ; Zhengbin Li ; Zhangyuan Chen

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Adv. Opt. Commun. Syst. & Networks, Peking Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Future passive optical network (PON) should combine various multiplexing method to realize larger-scale access. In this paper, mode division multiplexed (MDM) as a new multiplexing dimension is proposed, in which both the transmission few-mode fiber and the mode multiplexer/demultiplexer have low mode-crosstalk so that no multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) digital signal processing is required at the receiver. We show by experiments the feasibility of MDM-PON and hybrid MDM-TDM-PON. 10-Gb/s on-off keying (OOK) signals are successfully transmitted over 1.8-km 2-mode fiber without MIMO processing.

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; demultiplexing equipment; optical crosstalk; optical modulation; passive optical networks; OOK; few-mode fiber; hybrid MDM-TDM-PON; hybrid passive optical network; mode division multiplexing; mode multiplexer-demultiplexer; mode-crosstalk; on-off keying; optical receiver; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Passive optical networks; Time division multiplexing; Mode division multiplexed(MDM); Passive optical network(PON);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2015 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOCN.2015.7203680

Filename

7203680