Title :
Non-overlapping downlink and uplink wavelength reuse in WDM-PON employing microwave photonic techniques
Author :
Mu Xu ; Jing Wang ; Ming Zhu ; Lin Cheng ; Alfadhli, Yahya M. ; Ze Dong ; Gee-Kung Chang
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
A novel method is proposed to aggregate both downlink and uplink light sources in OLT for ease of WDM-PON system control and management with low bidirectional transmission impairments. 5-Gbit/s and 12.5-Gbit/s transmission experiments are conducted.
Keywords :
microwave photonics; passive optical networks; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM-PON system control; WDM-PON system management; bit rate 12.5 Gbit/s; bit rate 5 Gbit/s; downlink light source; low-bidirectional transmission impairments; microwave photonic techniques; nonoverlapping downlink wavelength reuse; nonoverlapping uplink wavelength reuse; uplink light source; Amplitude modulation; High-speed optical techniques; Light sources; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Passive optical networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964076
