Bidirectional WDM-PON based on gain-saturated reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers

Author

Lee, Wooram ; Park, Mahn Yong ; Cho, Seung Hyun ; Lee, Jihyun ; Kim, Byoung Whi ; Jeong, Geon ; Byoung Whi Kim

Author_Institution

WDM-PON Technol. Team, Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejeon, South Korea

Volume

17

Issue

11

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2460

Lastpage

2462

Abstract

We propose a bidirectional wavelength-division-multiplexed passive optical network by employing gain-saturated reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers (RSOAs) for wavelength-independent optical network terminals. The fabricated RSOA module has the input saturation power less than -13 dBm and its saturated gain higher than 13 dB within the C-band for arbitrary polarization states. The upstream signals are generated by remodulating the downstream signals whose modulation amplitude is squeezed through gain-saturated RSOAs. We present experimental results on bidirectional transmission with 1.25 Gb/s for upstream and 2.5 Gb/s for downstream data rates over 20-km transmission distance.

Keywords

optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; 1.25 Gbit/s; 2.5 Gbit/s; 20 km; bidirectional WDM-PON; bidirectional wavelength-division-multiplexed passive optical network; downstream signals; gain saturation; reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers; remodulation; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber subscriber loops; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Optical saturation; Optical sensors; Passive optical networks; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA); remodulation scheme; wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) access network; wavelength-independent optical network terminal (ONT);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.858148

Filename

1522353