Title :
Quantitative comparison of low-cost OFDMA-PON transceiver implementations
Author :
Giacoumidis, E. ; Kavatzikidis, A. ; Diamantopoulos, Nikolaos P. ; Mikroulis, Spiros ; Tomkos, Ioannis
Author_Institution :
Athens Inf. Technol. (AIT) Center, Athens, Greece
Abstract :
A quantitative comparison of up to 40 Gb/s low-cost orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing access (OFDMA)-passive optical networks (PON) implementations for both upstream (US) and downstream (DS) directions is evaluated based on different modulation and detection techniques.
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; passive optical networks; OFDMA-passive optical networks; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; detection techniques; downstream directions; low-cost OFDMA-PON transceiver; low-cost orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing access; upstream directions; Integrated optics; Modulation; OFDM; Optical fibers; Passive optical networks; Radio frequency; OFDM; Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing; PON; Passive Optical Network; coherent detection; direct-detection;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Coventry
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2228-7
Electronic_ISBN :
2161-2056
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253935
