An experimental assessment of the BSOFDM-PON architecture

Author

Nunes, Reginaldo B. ; Coelho, D. ; Silva, Jair A. L. ; Segatto, Marcelo E. V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Fed. Univ. of Espirito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil

fYear

2014

fDate

19-22 May 2014

Firstpage

228

Lastpage

233

Abstract

In this paper, we present experimental investigations of a 6 Gbps passive optical networks (PON) based on bandwidth scalable orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (BSOFDM-PON). The BSOFDM-PON architecture is composed by an optical line terminal (OLT) and three optical network units (ONUs) located at distances ranging from 25 to 65 km of standard single-mode fibers (SSMF). The influence of the frequency guard band designed to accommodate intermodulation distortions (IMD) inherit of direct-detection optical OFDM (DDO-OFDM) systems is experimentally evaluated. Our results show that this guard band strongly depends on the received optical power (fiber length) and the subcarrier modulation format. An error free transmission in 65 km of SSMF for a scalable bandwidth of 3 GHz occupying 4096 subcarriers mapped in 4QAM is achieved without the frequency gap of the guard band.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; intermodulation distortion; passive optical networks; BSOFDM-PON architecture; SSMF; bandwidth scalable orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; direct-detection optical OFDM system; intermodulation distortion; optical network units; passive optical networks; received optical power; single- mode fibers; subcarrier modulation format; Adaptive optics; OFDM; Optical modulation; Optical network units; Optical receivers; Passive optical networks; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Bandwidth scalable; intemodulation distortion; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; passive optical networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Network Design and Modeling, 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Stockholm

Type

conf

Filename

6855795