Title :
Reduction of back-reflection induced power penalty by means of coherent seeding source with optical feedback in a loop-back WDM-PON
Author :
Cho, Seung-Hyun ; Lee, Han Hyub ; Lee, Jie Hyun ; Lee, Sang Soo
Author_Institution :
ETRI (Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst.), Daejeon, South Korea
Abstract :
We proposed a novel method to implement the coherent seeding source using optical feedback and experimentally demonstrated the feasibility of our seed light under various back reflection levels in a loop-back WDM-PON based on RSOA.
Keywords :
optical fibre amplifiers; passive optical networks; wavelength division multiplexing; RSOA; back-reflection reduction; coherent seeding source; loop-back WDM-PON; optical feedback; reflective semiconductor optical amplifier; Optical feedback; Optical network units; Optical reflection; Optical variables measurement; 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
