• DocumentCode
    3701148
  • Title

    Coherent PON system with high-sensitivity polarization-independent receiver and no ADC/DSP

  • Author

    F. Bottoni;M. Rannello;M. Artiglia;M. Presi;E. Ciaramella

  • Author_Institution
    Scuola Superiore Sant´Anna, V. G. Moruzzi, 1 - 56124 - Pisa (ITALY)
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    A 1.25 Gb/s ASK PON system with -51dBm sensitivity (at BER=2-103) is enabled by a polarization-independent coherent receiver that needs no DSP (nor ADC). The system just uses common DFBs and commercial electronic devices and has 52 dB dynamic range.
  • Keywords
    "Receivers","Passive optical networks","Bit error rate","Optical attenuators","Sensitivity","Digital signal processing","Dynamic range"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341843
  • Filename
    7341843