Integrating Fiber-to-the-Home and POF In-Door Routing CATV Transport System

Author

Chang, Ching-Hung ; Su, Heng-Sheng ; Lu, Hai-Han ; Peng, Peng-Chun ; Hu, Hsuan-Wen

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electro-Opt. Eng., Nat. Taipei Univ. of Technol., Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

28

Issue

12

fYear

2010

fDate

6/15/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1864

Lastpage

1869

Abstract

An integrating fiber-to-the-home and plastic optical fiber (POF) in-door routing CATV transport system is proposed and demonstrated with good quality of service. In this system, a 1550 nm optical signal is directly transmitted along with a span of single-mode fiber (SMF) plus POF without wavelength converting or any bridge circuit. The feasibility of our proposed system is observed and accompanied with good carrier-to-noise ratio, composite second-order, and composite triple beat performances under various SMF and POF lengths. To be the first one, to the best of our knowledge, of successfully transporting CATV signals in such integrated access and in-door LAN, this system reveals prominence in simplicity and cost-effective to provide all-optical CATV service all the way to consumer in-door devices.

Keywords

cable television; local area networks; optical fibre subscriber loops; plastics; telecommunication network routing; all optical CATV service; composite triple beat performance; fiber-to-the-home; in-door LAN; in-door routing CATV transport system; plastic optical fiber; single mode fiber; wavelength 1550 nm; CATV; fiber to the home (FTTH); in-door network; local-area network (LAN); plastic optical fiber (POF);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2010.2049341

Filename

5460999