Title :
Toward terabit optical access network using spectrally-efficient, polarization-interleaved orthogonal wavelength-division-multiplexing
Author :
Fan, Shu-Hao ; Chien, Hung-Chang ; Liu, Jie ; Chang, Gee-Kung
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
We proposed a spectrally-efficient, high-capacity, polarization-interleaved (PI) OWDM PON architecture. The transmission performance of a 3-channel 25GHz-PI-OWDM system is theoretically analyzed and experimentally demonstrated over 15-km SMF-28 access-network architecture.
Keywords :
light polarisation; passive optical networks; wavelength division multiplexing; PON architecture; access-network architecture; frequency 25 GHz; high-capacity OWDM; orthogonal wavelength division multiplexing; polarization-interleaved OWDM; spectrally-efficient OWDM; terabit optical access network; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical network units; Optical polarization; Passive optical networks; Q factor;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Montreal, QC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5730-4
DOI :
10.1109/PHOSST.2011.6000069
