Title : 
An upgradable broadcasting service enabled all-optical OFDM-PON architecture based on centralized comb source
         
        
            Author : 
Jian Chen ; Mingzhi Mao ; Qianwu Zhang ; Yingxiong Song ; Yingchun Li ; Yating Wu ; Min Wang
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Key Lab. of Specialty Fiber Opt. & Opt. Access Networks, Shanghai Univ., Shanghai, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
An upgradable broadcasting service enabled all-optical OFDM-PON architecture based on centralized comb source is proposed. Optical frequency comb generator based on a re-circulating frequency shifter for our OFDM-PON system is illustrated. The configuration employs only one light source to support 8 optical network units for downstream, upstream and broadcasting services.
         
        
            Keywords : 
OFDM modulation; broadcasting; frequency shift keying; passive optical networks; all optical OFDM-PON architecture; broadcasting service; centralized comb source; frequency shifter; optical frequency comb generator; Frequency modulation; Integrated optics; OFDM; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Passive optical networks; comb generation; optical OFDM; re-circulating frequency shifter;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Communication Technology (ICCT), 2013 15th IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Guilin
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICCT.2013.6820394