Title :
Negative-chirped EAM-SOA for distance-insensitive optical OFDM transmission in long-Reach OFDMA PONs
Author :
Kuo-Chun Chang ; Shin-Wei Shen ; Mao-Chin Hsu ; Yi-Jen Chiu ; Chia-Chien Wei ; Chao-Kuei Lee
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Photonics, Nat. Sun Yat-sen Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Abstract :
Enabled by negative-chirped EAM-SOA, we successfully demonstrate 23-Gbps OFDM transmission in the range of 60~100 km without adaptive bit- and/or power-loading. This distance-insensitive performance reveals the feasibility of simple and efficient OFDMA LR-PON.
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; electroabsorption; frequency division multiple access; passive optical networks; semiconductor optical amplifiers; bit rate 23 Gbit/s; distance-insensitive optical OFDM transmission; electroabsorption modulator; long-reach OFDMA PON; long-reach passive optical networks; negative-chirped EAM-SOA; orthogonal frequency division multiple access; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; semiconductor optical amplifier; Bandwidth; Chirp; OFDM; Optical fibers; Optical modulation;
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.Tu3H.4
