Raman Amplified PON (RA-PON): mitigating SRS using SRS

Author

Acharya, Kavan K. ; Raja, M. Yasin Akhtar

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. & Opt. Sci., Center for Optoelectron. & Opt. Commun., Charlotte, NC

fYear

2008

fDate

18-20 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

240

Lastpage

244

Abstract

The effect of SRS crosstalk in PON has been reported in several papers. In this paper, we propose a solution that can be used to compensate the signal attenuation due to SRS crosstalk. Proposed solution can also be used to increase the reach of PON, in an effort to merge access and metro networks. This is done by using remote Raman amplification where, a CW counter-propagating pump is placed at one of the ONUs. A ~15 dB amplification of the downstream signal is observed with a BER < 10e-12.

Keywords

optical crosstalk; optical fibre networks; optical fibre subscriber loops; optical pumping; stimulated Raman scattering; CW counter-propagating pump; RA-PON; Raman amplified PON; SRS crosstalk; access network; downstream signal; metro network; optical fiber communication; passive optical networks; remote Raman amplification; signal attenuation; stimulated Raman scattering; Doped fiber amplifiers; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Optical attenuators; Optical crosstalk; Optical pumping; Optical scattering; Passive optical networks; Raman scattering; Stimulated emission; Optical Fiber Communication; Passive Optical Network; Raman Amplifier; Stimulated Raman Scattering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies, 2008. HONET 2008. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Penang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2960-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2961-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HONET.2008.4810242

Filename

4810242