Title :
Symmetric 2.5 Gb/s RSOA-based WDM-PON with electronic equalization and overlapped-subcarrier multiplexing
Author :
Buset, Jonathan M. ; El-Sahn, Ziad A. ; Plant, David V.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montréal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
The performance benefits of electronic equalization are investigated in a symmetric WDM-PON architecture using 100% overlapped-SCM and a bandwidth-limited RSOA. A power budget improvement of ~4:5 dB is demonstrated for error free operation at realistic launch powers.
Keywords :
equalisers; optical fibre networks; optical transmitters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; subcarrier multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; RSOA-based WDM-PON; bit rate 2.5 Gbit/s; electronic equalization; overlapped-subcarrier multiplexing; power budget; realistic launch powers; Forward error correction; Modulation; Optical network units; Optical signal processing; Passive optical networks; Q factor; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (PHO), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8940-4
DOI :
10.1109/PHO.2011.6110503
