Title :
Low-cost transmitter for flexible-format generation up to 16-QAM for spectral-efficiency conscious PONs
Author :
Schrenk, Bernhard ; Lazarou, I. ; Dris, Stefanos ; Bakopoulos, Paraskevas ; Avramopoulos, H. ; Stierle, Martin ; Leopold, Helmut
Author_Institution :
Dept. Safety & Security / Opt. Quantum Technol., Austrian Inst. of Technol. - AIT, Vienna, Austria
Abstract :
A flexible-format EAM/SOA-transmitter for coherent PONs with spectral efficiencies of up to 4 bits/symbol, delivering up to 4 Gb/s per-user bandwidth over 34-49dB loss budget, is demonstrated. We show that its constellational multiplicity can be exploited for energy-aware throughput optimization.
Keywords :
electro-optical modulation; optical transmitters; passive optical networks; quadrature amplitude modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 16-QAM; EAM transmitter; SOA transmitter; constellational multiplicity; energy-aware throughput optimization; flexible format generation; low cost transmitter; spectral efficiency conscious PON;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC 2013), 39th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
London
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-84919-759-5
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2013.1355
