Title : 
WDM PON with a single SLED seeding colorless RSOA-based OLT and ONUs
         
        
            Author : 
Payoux, F. ; Chanclou, P. ; Brenot, R.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
France Telecom Research and Development Division, 2 Avenue Pierre Marzin, 22307 Lannion, France; franck.payoux@francetelecom.com
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper presents the experimental results obtained on a 16 users WDM PON architecture based on wavelength-seeded R-SOAs both at OLT and ONUs operating at 1,25 Gbit/s. A single spectrum-sliced SLED generates 32 wavelengths.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Arrayed waveguide gratings; Costs; Light emitting diodes; Optical filters; Optical network units; Optical waveguides; Passive optical networks; Stimulated emission; Superluminescent diodes; Wavelength division multiplexing;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Cannes, France
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-2-912328-39-7
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-2-912328-39-7
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ECOC.2006.4801117