Title :
Utilizing unused power budget to increase network capacity in practical PON deployments by introducing flexible modulation
Author :
R. van der Linden;N. C. Tran;E. Tangdiongga;A. M. J. Koonen
Author_Institution :
COBRA Research Institute, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Abstract :
The actual use of power budgets in a PON typically varies widely. Utilizing 4-PAM modulation for ONUs that have high power margins can increase network capacity utilization without investing in expensive optics. We demonstrate that the capacity can increase 79%.
Keywords :
"Passive optical networks","Modulation","Optical network units","Optical sensors","Bit error rate","Time division multiplexing"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341826
