Title :
Mitigation of Reflection-induced Crosstalk in a WDM Access Network
Author :
Urban, P.J. ; Koonen, A.M.J. ; Khoe, G.D. ; de Waardt, H.
Author_Institution :
COBRA Res. Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands
Abstract :
Reduction of reflection-induced crosstalk in a link employing Reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifier achieved by applying Bias Dithering at RSOA and Phase Modulation at the source gives 6dB and 7dB improvement in power penalty, respectively.
Keywords :
optical crosstalk; optical modulation; phase modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; RSOA; WDM access network; bias dithering; phase modulation; power penalty; reflection-induced crosstalk; reflective semiconductor optical amplifier; Optical crosstalk; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical network units; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters; Phase modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; WDM networks; 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.2008.4528535
