Title :
Automatic wavelength control method using Rayleigh backscattering for WDM-PON with tunable lasers
Author :
Moon, Sang-Rok ; Lee, Hoon-Keun ; Lee, Chang-Hee
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon, South Korea
Abstract :
We demonstrate an automatic wavelength control method using Rayleigh backscattering and wavelength modulation for tunable lasers in a WDM-PON. By measuring the spectrum of backscattered light, we identified and tracked the allocated wavelength.
Keywords :
Rayleigh scattering; laser tuning; optical fibre networks; wavelength assignment; wavelength division multiplexing; Rayleigh backscattering; WDM-PON; automatic wavelength control; passive optical networks; tunable lasers; wavelength allocation; wavelength division multiplexing; wavelength modulation; Modulation; Optical fibers; Passive optical networks; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
