Single RSOA based ONU for RZ symmetrical WDM PONs at 2.5 Gb/s

Author

Fresi, F. ; Berrettini, G. ; Barman, A. Das ; Debnath, S. ; Poti, L. ; Bogoni, A.

Author_Institution

Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna, Pisa

fYear

2008

fDate

4-7 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A bidirectional WDM-PON exploiting reflective semiconductor amplifiers at the optical network unit (ONU) and a multiwavelength RZ pulsed signal comb at the Central Office (CO) is presented. The reflective SOA acts simultaneously as downstream modulation eraser, upstream amplifier and modulator, thus making the ONU wavelength-independent.

Keywords

optical fibre networks; optical modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; Central Office; bit rate 2.5 Gbit/s; downstream modulation eraser; multiwavelength RZ pulsed signal comb; passive optical networks; reflective SOA; reflective semiconductor amplifiers; upstream amplifier; upstream modulator; wavelength division multiplexing; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Light sources; Modulation; Optical filters; Optical network units; Optical receivers; Passive optical networks; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing; passive optical networks (PONs); reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics in Switching, 2008. PS 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sapporo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4326-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-4-8855-2228-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PS.2008.4804243

Filename

4804243