Title : 
Single feeder bidirectional WDM-PON with enhanced resilience to Rayleigh-backscattering
         
        
            Author : 
Presi, M. ; Chiuchiarelli, A. ; Proietti, R. ; Choudhury, P. ; Contestabile, G. ; Ciaramella, E.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna, Pisa, Italy
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We report a system demonstration of 6 dB-enhanced tolerance to distributed reflections for WDM-PONs using commercial 1.25 Gb/s SFP reflective transceivers. The scheme, based on 8B10B-coding and high-pass electrical filtering, works with CW or 10 Gb/s downstream seeding.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Rayleigh scattering; filtering theory; optical crosstalk; optical fibre networks; transceivers; wavelength division multiplexing; Rayleigh-backscattering; SFP reflective transceivers; bit rate 1.25 Gbit/s; distributed reflections; downstream seeding; enhanced resilience tolerance; gain 6 dB; high-pass electrical filtering; single feeder bidirectional WDM-PON; Low pass filters; Optical attenuators; Optical crosstalk; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical network units; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Passive optical networks; Resilience;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Diego, CA
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-55752-884-1