Title :
Reflection tolerance of RSOA-based WDM PON
Author :
Lee, Y.J. ; Cho, K.Y. ; Murakami, Akira ; Agata, A. ; Takushima, Yuichi ; Chung, Yun C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon, South Korea
Abstract :
We investigate the effects of back-reflection in RSOA-based WDM PON utilizing the remodulation technique. The downstream signal is likely to have severe reflection tolerance (-42 ~ -35 dB), which highly depends on the RSOA gain.
Keywords :
optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; RSOA; WDM PON; back-reflection; reflection tolerance; remodulation; Acoustic reflection; Laboratories; Light sources; Optical network units; Optical noise; Optical reflection; Passive optical networks; Research and development; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
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
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528609
