Title :
Maximum reach of long-reach RSOA-based WDM PON employing remote EDFA
Author :
Hong, U.H. ; Cho, K.Y. ; Takushima, Y. ; Chung, Y.C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
Abstract :
We investigate the effects of the gain and position of the remote EDFA in a long-reach RSOA-based WDM PON. Using this result, we also estimate the maximum transmission reach limited by Rayleigh backscattering.
Keywords :
Rayleigh scattering; backscatter; erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; passive optical networks; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; Er; Rayleigh backscattering; erbium-doped fiber amplifier; long-reach RSOA-based WDM PON; passive optical network; remote EDFA; Backscatter; Crosstalk; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Gain; Optical fiber polarization; Passive optical networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0213-6
