Full-duplex bidirectional transmission at 10 Gbps in WDM PONs with RSOA-based ONU using offset optical filtering and electronic equalization

Author

Omella, M. ; Papagiannakis, I. ; Schrenk, B. ; Klonidis, D. ; Birbas, A.N. ; Kikidis, J. ; Prat, J. ; Tomkos, I.

Author_Institution

Signal Theor. & Commun. Dept., Univ. Politec. de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona

fYear

2009

fDate

22-26 March 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Bidirectional full-duplex transmission at 10 Gbps over extended SSMF is demonstrated using a low-bandwidth RSOA (1.5 GHz) in the ONU, assisted by electronic equalization (DFE) and optimum offset filtering at the receiver (OLT) end.

Keywords

equalisers; optical fibre networks; optical filters; optical receivers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; RSOA-based ONU; SSMF; WDM PON; bidirectional full-duplex transmission; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; electronic equalization; full-duplex bidirectional transmission; offset optical filtering; optimum offset filtering; Bandwidth; Decision feedback equalizers; Filtering; Optical feedback; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical network units; Optical receivers; Passive optical networks; Wavelength division multiplexing; (060.2330) Fiber optics communications; (060.4250) Networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2606-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-865-0

Type

conf

Filename

5032621