• DocumentCode
    3527431
  • Title

    Mitigation of Reflection-induced Crosstalk in a WDM Access Network

  • Author

    Urban, P.J. ; Koonen, A.M.J. ; Khoe, G.D. ; de Waardt, H.

  • Author_Institution
    COBRA Res. Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    24-28 Feb. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Reduction of reflection-induced crosstalk in a link employing Reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifier achieved by applying Bias Dithering at RSOA and Phase Modulation at the source gives 6dB and 7dB improvement in power penalty, respectively.
  • Keywords
    optical crosstalk; optical modulation; phase modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; RSOA; WDM access network; bias dithering; phase modulation; power penalty; reflection-induced crosstalk; reflective semiconductor optical amplifier; Optical crosstalk; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical network units; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters; Phase modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-856-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2008.4528535
  • Filename
    4528535