Title :
DFB laser reallocation by thermal wavelength control for statistical udWDM in PONs
Author :
Polo, Victor ; Borotau, P. ; Lerin, Adolfo ; Prat, Josep
Author_Institution :
Univ. Politec. de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
Abstract :
We demonstrate a simple fast method of laser wavelength channel switching for the wavelength management of UDWDM-PONs where the ONUs have source wavelengths with random distribution and are controlled with limited thermal tunability.
Keywords :
distributed feedback lasers; optical switches; passive optical networks; wavelength division multiplexing; DFB laser reallocation; ONU; laser wavelength channel switching; limited thermal tunability; passive optical networks; random distribution; source wavelength; statistical UDWDM-PON; thermal wavelength control; ultradense wavelength division multiplexing; wavelength management; Laser tuning; Optical network units; Optical switches; Passive optical networks; Temperature measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964080
