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
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