Title :
Mitigating Rayleigh backscattering noise in WDM-PON by using cascaded SOAs and microwave photonic filter
Author :
Hanlin Feng ; Jia Ge ; Xiao, Shiwu ; Fok, Mable P.
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Adv. Opt. Commun. Syst. & Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
We present a Rayleigh backscattering noise mitigation scheme for 10-Gb/s loop-back WDM-PON with cascaded SOAs. OSRNR is reduced to 16.5 dB and BER is improved by 6 dB with the incorporation of microwave photonic filter.
Keywords :
Rayleigh scattering; error statistics; microwave photonics; optical fibre filters; optical fibre networks; optical noise; passive optical networks; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; BER; OSRNR; Rayleigh backscattering noise mitigation; WDM-PON; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; cascaded SOA; microwave photonic filter; Microwave filters; Noise; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Passive optical networks; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
