Title :
High-sensitivity, multi-rate, multi-band OLT receiver for hybrid 1G / 10G passive optical networks
Author :
Piehler, David ; Mu, Ruomei
Author_Institution :
Alphion Corp., Princeton, NJ
Abstract :
An OLT receiver that includes a semiconductor optical amplifier, a ldquosoftrdquo optical filter and a PIN photodiode has significantly higher sensitivity, and lower complexity than avalanche photodiode-based OLT receivers.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; optical filters; p-i-n photodiodes; semiconductor optical amplifiers; PIN photodiode; hybrid passive optical networks; multirate multiband OLT receiver; semiconductor optical amplifier; soft optical filter; Band pass filters; Bandwidth; Optical filters; Optical network units; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Brussels
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2227-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2228-9
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729327
