Demonstration of a RSOA-based wavelength remodulation scheme in 1.25 Gbit/s bidirectional hybrid WDM-TDM PON

Author

Payoux, F. ; Chanclou, P. ; Soret, T. ; Genay, N. ; Brenot, R.

Author_Institution

Div. of Res. & Dev., France Telecom, Lannion

fYear

2006

fDate

5-10 March 2006

Abstract

We propose a WDM-TDM PON architecture with a RSOA-based colorless ONU where the downstream wavelength shared between 8 or 16 users is remodulated to generate upstream signals. 1.25 Gbit/s down- and up-stream transmissions were demonstrated over single-fibre and two-fibre architectures

Keywords

optical fibre networks; optical modulation; reflectivity; semiconductor optical amplifiers; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; 1.25 Gbit/s; RSOA; WDM-TDM PON; bidirectional passive optical network; colorless optical network unit; down-stream transmission; hybrid passive optical network; single-fibre architecture; two-fibre architecture; upstream signals; upstream transmission; wavelength remodulation scheme; Extinction ratio; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical modulation; Optical network units; Optical saturation; Optical sensors; Passive optical networks; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-803-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2006.215349

Filename

1636379