Title :
Colorless ONU based on all-VCSEL sources with remote optical injection for WDM-PON
Author :
Deng, Lei ; Zhao, Ying ; Pang, Xiaodan ; Yu, Xianbin ; Jensen, J. Bevensee ; Liu, Deming ; Monroy, I. Tafur
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Optoelectron. Sci. & Eng., HuaZhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
We propose a novel low-cost and colorless WDM-PON architecture by using all VCSELs-based optical injection locking technique. A bidirectional transmission system over 26 km SMF at 5 Gbps without optical amplification is successfully achieved.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; optical fibre networks; optical transmitters; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM-PON; all-VCSEL sources; bidirectional transmission; colorless ONU; optical injection locking; optical network unit; remote optical injection; Optical fibers; Optical network units; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (PHO), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8940-4
DOI :
10.1109/PHO.2011.6110505
