WDM-PON network upscaling using in-building linear SOAs

Author

Martínez, J.J. ; Merayo, N. ; Villafranca, A. ; Garcés, I.

Author_Institution

Photonics Technol. Group, Univ. de Zaragoza, Cuarte, Spain

fYear

2011

fDate

26-30 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this work we propose a WDM PON migration from FTTB to FTTH access by employing bidirectional amplification by a linearized semiconductor optical amplifier. We demonstrate that a semiconductor optical amplifier placed at the entry of a group of ONUs sharing the same wavelength can boost the loss budget allowing to compensate for the losses of a passive splitter up to 1:16 division rate, allowing to upgrade existing WDM PONs FTTB structures to permit the fiber to reach the final user´s home.

Keywords

optical communication equipment; optical fibre subscriber loops; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; FTTB access; FTTH access; WDM PON migration; WDM-PON network upscaling; bidirectional amplification; inbuilding linear SOA; linearized semiconductor optical amplifier; loss budget; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Passive optical networks; Wavelength division multiplexing; FTTH; Optical access network; Passive optical networks; SOA; WDM-PON;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2011 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Stockholm

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0881-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2011.5970979

Filename

5970979