• DocumentCode
    670905
  • Title

    Quaternary TDM-PAM and its implications for TDMA equipment

  • Author

    Dris, Stefanos ; Bauwelinck, J. ; Yin, X. ; Schrenk, Bernhard ; Lazaro, J.A. ; Katopodis, V. ; Bakopoulos, Paraskevas ; Verbrugghe, J. ; Avramopoulos, H.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    16-20 Sept. 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    The migration towards a 20 Gb/s quaternary TDM-PAM passive optical network with chirped and non-linear optical transmitters is experimentally studied. We show that a loss budget of 27.3 dB is compatible together with a packet power ratio of 10 dB between loud and soft ONU.
  • Keywords
    nonlinear optics; optical losses; optical transmitters; passive optical networks; pulse amplitude modulation; time division multiple access; time division multiplexing; TDMA equipment; bit rate 20 Gbit/s; chirped nonlinear optical transmitters; loss 27.3 dB; loss budget; loud ONU; optical network units; packet power ratio; passive optical network; pulse amplitude modulation; quaternary TDM-PAM; soft ONU; time division multiple access; time-division multiplexing; Bit error rate; Modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical network units; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Time division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Amsterdam
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6706165