Symmetric 10 Gb/s WDM-PON based on a cross wavelength-reusing scheme to avoid rayleigh backscattering and maximize band usage

Author

Chiuchiarelli, Andrea ; Proietti, Roberto ; Presi, Marco ; Choudhury, Pallab ; Contestabile, Giampiero ; Ciaramella, Ernesto

Author_Institution

Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna, Pisa, Italy

fYear

2009

fDate

4-8 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

555

Lastpage

556

Abstract

We demonstrate a 10 Gb/s symmetrical WDM-PON exploiting a cross seeding scheme to enable wavelength reusing. It avoids reflection-induced penalties, and effectively removes any extinction-ratio constraint by means of DPSK modulation format in the downlink.

Keywords

Rayleigh scattering; backscatter; differential phase shift keying; optical fibre networks; wavelength division multiplexing; DPSK modulation format; Rayleigh backscattering avoidance; band usage maximization; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; cross seeding scheme; cross wavelength-reusing scheme; downlink; extinction-ratio constraint removal; symmetric WDM-PON; wavelength division multiplexing passive optical networks; Backscatter; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Erbium; Optical crosstalk; Optical modulation; Optical network units; Optical scattering; Optical signal processing; Passive optical networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE

Conference_Location

Belek-Antalya

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3680-4

Electronic_ISBN

1092-8081

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343149

Filename

5343149