• DocumentCode
    3520438
  • Title

    Impact of linewidth on system impairment caused by backreflection in WDM PONs

  • Author

    ShiYu Gao ; Han Wu Hu ; Atieh, Ahmad ; Anis, H.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Eng., Ottawa Univ., Ottawa, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    24-28 Feb. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    This paper experimentally investigates the impact of linewidth on system impairment in WDM-PONs for various wavelength-independent ONU configurations. We show that the power penalty decreases and the optimal ONU gain changes as the linewidth increases.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre networks; wavelength division multiplexing; ONU; WDM PON; backreflection; linewidth; system impairment; Optical attenuators; Optical modulation; Optical network units; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Semiconductor device noise; Signal to noise ratio; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-856-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2008.4528134
  • Filename
    4528134