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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528134
