Title :
Coherent PON system with high-sensitivity polarization-independent receiver and no ADC/DSP
Author :
F. Bottoni;M. Rannello;M. Artiglia;M. Presi;E. Ciaramella
Author_Institution :
Scuola Superiore Sant´Anna, V. G. Moruzzi, 1 - 56124 - Pisa (ITALY)
Abstract :
A 1.25 Gb/s ASK PON system with -51dBm sensitivity (at BER=2-103) is enabled by a polarization-independent coherent receiver that needs no DSP (nor ADC). The system just uses common DFBs and commercial electronic devices and has 52 dB dynamic range.
Keywords :
"Receivers","Passive optical networks","Bit error rate","Optical attenuators","Sensitivity","Digital signal processing","Dynamic range"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341843
