Simulations and Experiments on the Effective Optical Gain of FEC in a GPON Uplink

Author

Yi, Yanchun ; Verschuere, Stefaan ; Lou, Zhe ; Ossieur, Peter ; Bauwelinck, Johan ; Qiu, Xing-Zhi ; Vandewege, Jan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ., Gent

Volume

19

Issue

2

fYear

2007

Firstpage

82

Lastpage

84

Abstract

This letter studies the effective optical gain of Reed-Solomon (RS) forward-error correction (FEC) in a burst-mode gigabit passive optical network (GPON) uplink. Numerical simulations are made of the performance of an RS (255, 239) FEC code. For the first time, FEC performance is measured in a 1.25-Gb/s burst-mode GPON uplink in the presence of mode partition noise (MPN). Measurements show that the effective optical gain of RS (255, 239) can be considerably higher than 2.7 dB when MPN dominates

Keywords

Reed-Solomon codes; forward error correction; optical fibre networks; 1.25 Gbit/s; Reed-Solomon code; burst-mode uplink; effective optical gain; forward error correction; gigabit passive optical network uplink; mode partition noise; High speed optical techniques; Laser modes; Laser noise; Laser theory; Optical fiber networks; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Burst-mode; Fabry–Pérot (FP) laser; effective optical gain; forward-error correction (FEC); gigabit passive optical network (GPON); mode partition noise (MPN);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.888969

Filename

4039396