Title :
Upstream burst-mode operation of a 100km reach, 16 × 512 split hybrid DWDM-TDM PON using tuneable external cavity lasers at the ONU-side
Author :
Antony, C. ; Ossieur, P. ; Talli, G. ; Townsend, P.D. ; Krimmel, H.G. ; Poustie, A. ; Wyatt, R. ; Harmon, B. ; Lealman, I. ; Maxwell, G. ; Rogers, D. ; Smith, D.W.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Univ. Coll. Cork, Cork, Ireland
Abstract :
This paper presents the first burst-mode system tests of a new hybrid 10 Gb/s DWDM-TDM PON. The upstream channels in the network are enabled by combining novel, cost-effective tuneable ONU lasers and a gain-stabilized EDFA (BM-EDFA).
Keywords :
erbium; laser cavity resonators; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; JkJk:Er; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; dense wavelength division multiplexing; distance 100 km; erbium doped fiber amplifier; gain-stabilized EDFA; optical network unit; passive optical networks; split hybrid DWDM-TDM PON; time division multiplexing; tuneable external cavity laser; upstream burst-mode operation; upstream channels; Costs; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Laser tuning; Micromotors; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tunable circuits and devices;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2009. ECOC '09. 35th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5096-1
