Title :
Gain-controlled optical amplifier technologies for long-reach and high-splitting-ratio PON systems
Author :
Fujiwara, Masamichi
Author_Institution :
NTT Access Network Service Syst. Labs., NTT Corp., Yokosuka, Japan
Abstract :
We describe gain-controlled optical amplifier technologies that allow service providers to flexibly locate PON repeaters in a long-reach PON system and accommodate many more users through high splitting ratios.
Keywords :
automatic gain control; optical fibre amplifiers; optical repeaters; passive optical networks; PON repeaters; gain-controlled optical amplifier technology; high-splitting-ratio PON systems; long-reach PON systems; service providers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical losses; Passive optical networks; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.Tu2C.3
