A Novel Pulse-Positioned Coding Scheme for Fiber Fault Monitoring of a PON

Author

Rad, Mohammad M. ; Fathallah, Habib A. ; Maier, Martin ; Rusch, Leslie A. ; Uysal, Murat

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

Volume

15

Issue

9

fYear

2011

fDate

9/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1007

Lastpage

1009

Abstract

In this letter, we propose a novel optical coding scheme for fiber link quality monitoring of a passive optical network (PON). The proposed scheme named incrementally pulse positioned coding (IPPC) is practically very attractive due to its simple design and fabrication process, small size, zero coding loss and low cost. We demonstrate the superior correlation properties of IPPC over existing codes, address the design considerations, and evaluate its performance for a PON monitoring system via the average signal-to-interference ratio (SIR).

Keywords

interference (signal); optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre networks; passive optical networks; performance evaluation; pulse position modulation; IPPC; PON monitoring system; SIR; correlation property; fabrication process; fiber fault monitoring; fiber link quality monitoring; incrementally pulse positioned coding; optical coding scheme; passive optical network; performance evaluation; pulse-positioned coding scheme; signal-to-interference ratio; zero coding loss; Correlation; Encoding; Gratings; Monitoring; Optical fibers; Passive optical networks; Monitoring; incrementally pulse-positioned coding (IPPC); passive optical network (PON);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2011.070711.111006

Filename

5958556