Title :
Data overlay in optical networks through level-scalable flexible modulation and its application in multicast overlay for WDM-PON
Author :
Guo-Wei Lu ; Sakamoto, Takahide ; Kawanishi, Tetsuya
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol. (NICT), Koganei, Japan
Abstract :
We propose an optical data overlay scheme through level-scalable flexible modulation. Using this proposed scheme, Optical multicast overlay over point-to-point unicast in WDM-PON is experimentally demonstrated by scaling up the modulation from QPSK to 16QAM at 10Gbaud.
Keywords :
optical modulation; overlay networks; passive optical networks; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; 16QAM; QPSK; WDM-PON; level-scalable flexible modulation; optical data overlay scheme; optical multicast overlay; optical networks; point-to-point unicast; Optical modulation; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; Phase shift keying; Unicast;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2014.6995220
