Title :
Effect of AWG filtering on spectrally-sliced WDM-PONs deploying RSOAs
Author :
Taebi, Sareh ; Saini, Simarjeet S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Abstract :
In incoherent-injected WDM-PONs, it is shown through simulations and experiments that Flat-band athermal AWGs with channel spacing of 100GHz have improved performance in terms of BER than their Gaussian-shape counterpart due to the effect of signal filtering. At a BER of 10-9, the power penalty is 2 dB for Flat-band AWG and more than 4 dB for Gaussian AWG.
Keywords :
error statistics; filtering theory; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; AWG filtering; BER; Gaussian AWG; arrayed waveguide gratings; flat-band athermal AWG; frequency 100 GHz; reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers; signal filtering; spectrally-sliced WDM-PON; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Filtering theory; Receivers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), 2010 Asia
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7111-9
DOI :
10.1109/ACP.2010.5682610
