Title :
Impact of Brillouin scattering on R-SOA based WDM PON power budget
Author :
Parolari, P. ; Marazzi, L. ; Gatti, D. ; Longhi, S. ; Martinelli, M.
Author_Institution :
PoliCom Dip. di Elettron. e Inf., Politec. di Milano, Milan, Italy
Abstract :
Brillouin scattering effect in a colorless 25-km bidirectional WDM PON is experimentally evaluated. Downstream 10-Gb/s DPSK signal is directly received with a novel FBG, seeding an R-SOA at the ONU, for upstream 1.25-Gb/s OOK transmission.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; amplitude shift keying; differential phase shift keying; optical fibre communication; optical fibre networks; optical fibres; optical modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; stimulated Brillouin scattering; wavelength division multiplexing; Brillouin scattering; DPSK signal; FBG; ONU; OOK transmission; R-SOA; WDM PON; bit rate 1.25 Gbit/s; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; distance 25 km; power budget; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical network units; Optical reflection; Passive optical networks; Phase modulation; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
