Extending the reach of DWDM-PON access network using chromatic dispersion compensation

Author

Spolitis, Sandis ; Ivanovs, Girts

Author_Institution

Inst. of Telecommun., Riga Tech. Univ., Riga, Latvia

fYear

2011

fDate

19-21 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

29

Lastpage

33

Abstract

The maximum reach of the Dense Wavelength-Division-Multiplexed Passive Optical Network (DWDM-PON) system can be severely limited by chromatic dispersion (CD). This paper contains the investigation of long-reach high speed 16-channel DWDM-PON system with efficient CD compensation methods. It is shown that chromatic dispersion compensation has a crucial role for guaranteed downstream optical link performance and maximum link length of high speed long-reach DWDM-PON system. The results show that usage of additional 7 km long dispersion compensating fiber (DCF) placed in central office improves the DWDM-PON network reach by 19.3% (from 57 km up to 68 km) but usage of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) improves network reach up to 26.3% (from 57 km up to 72 km). As a result, authors recommend the use of FBG for chromatic dispersion compensation to increase the maximum transmission distance of high speed DWDM-PON system.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; aberrations; compensation; optical fibre dispersion; optical links; passive optical networks; wavelength division multiplexing; DWDM; FBG; PON; chromatic dispersion compensation; dense wavelength division multiplexing; dispersion compensating fiber; fiber Bragg grating; optical access network; optical link; passive optical network; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical pulses; Passive optical networks; Wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network (WDM-PON); chromatic dispersion (CD) compensation methods; dispersion compensating fiber (DCF); fiber Bragg grating (FBG);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Technologies Workshop (Swe-CTW), 2011 IEEE Swedish

Conference_Location

Stockholm

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1877-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-1876-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/Swe-CTW.2011.6082484

Filename

6082484