Title :
Bi-directional ultra-dense polarization-diverse OFDM/WDM PON with laserless colorless 1Gb/s ONUs based on Si PICs and <417 MHz mixed-signal ICs
Author :
Agmon, A. ; Nazarathy, Moshe ; Marom, Dan M. ; Ben-Ezra, S. ; Tolmachev, Alex ; Killey, Robert ; Bayvel, Polina ; Meder, L. ; Hubner, Michael ; Meredith, W. ; Vickers, G. ; Schindler, Philipp C. ; Schmogrow, R. ; Hillerkuss, D. ; Freude, W. ; Leuthold, Ju
Author_Institution :
EE Dept., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
We introduce a next-gen OFDM/WDM spectral architecture symmetrically serving 40G/40G to 4 ODNs (4×64 users) per 4×12.5 GHz dense λ -s, with low-cost energy-efficient self-coherent photonic-integrated ONUs with down/up 16-QAM OFDM polarization diversity.
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; next generation networks; passive optical networks; quadrature amplitude modulation; spectral analysis; wavelength division multiplexing; ODN; PIC; QAM OFDM polarization diversity; bidirectional ultra-dense polarization-diverse OFDM/WDM PON; laserless colorless ONU; low-cost energy-efficient self-coherent photonic-integrated ONU; mixed-signal IC; next-gen OFDM/WDM spectral architecture; Integrated optics; OFDM; Optical fibers; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0457-0
