[OFC 2013 Tutorial OW3G.4] Burst-mode Receiver Technology for Short Synchronization

Review of OLT BM-RX requirements / design guidelines are given here. Optical power budget and network coexistance with deployed PONs. Relaxed timing parameters but still shorter burst overhead for robust design and high yield manufacture. Trade-off between cost effectiveness (die size, packaging, power consumption) and good enough performance. No external time-critical control signals cross PHY & MAC layer for better system interoperability. Overview of IEEE & ITU-T fast synchronization BM-RX development is also given. AC-coupled & DC-coupled BM-RX configurations. Various 2R / 3R BM-RX architectures. Dual-rate and multi-rate operation. (Sub)-system integration and demonstration is also shown. Technology for IEEE 10G-EPON BM-Rx is ready for production, need low cost-engineering work and volume (10G-PON optics synergy with ITU-T NG-PON2 TDMA-BM-RXs). 10G/5G/2.5Gb/s upstream burst-mode transmission demonstrated with excellent performance (elimination of external reset, fast synchronization with fully programmable short overhead, and low power consumption).