Polarization beamforming MIMO-based PON: 20 Gb/s transmission over a 10 Gb/s system with dynamic power allocation and ∼1.8 dB improved reach

Author

Agmon, Amos ; Schrenk, Bernhard ; Prat, Josep ; Nazarathy, Moshe

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa

fYear

2009

fDate

22-26 March 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We report the first experimental demonstration of a low-complexity polarization multiplexing PON architecture, achieving twice the downstream throughput, dynamic power allocation, and improving loss budget up to ~1.8 dB based on MIMO polarization beamforming.

Keywords

MIMO communication; array signal processing; high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre networks; MIMO-based PON; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 20 Gbit/s; dynamic power allocation; high-speed transmission; low-complexity polarization multiplexing; passive optical network; polarization beamforming; Array signal processing; MIMO; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical network units; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Time division multiplexing; (060.2330) Fiber optics communications; (060.2430) Fibers, single-mode; (060.4230) Multiplexing; (060.4250) Networks; (260.5430) Polarization;

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

5032756