Wavelength conversion towards Rayleigh backscattering tolerant PONs via four-wave mixing in SOA-based ONUs

Author

Schrenk, Bernhard ; Lazaro, Jose A. ; Prat, Josep

Author_Institution

Dept. of Signal Theor. & Commun., Univ. Politec. de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

fYear

2010

fDate

21-25 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Wavelength shifting in PONs with downstream signal remodulation is presented, allowing upstream transmission over trees with 25 km feeder and 1:32 split with penalties < 2 dB, originally Rayleigh backscattering limited. Side-mode suppression is analyzed for hybrid PONs.

Keywords

Rayleigh scattering; multiwave mixing; optical communication equipment; optical feedback; optical fibre networks; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; ONU; PON; Rayleigh backscattering; SOA; distance 25 km; four-wave mixing; side-mode suppression; signal remodulation; upstream transmission; wavelength conversion; wavelength shifting; Backscatter; Fiber nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing; Optical fiber devices; Optical mixing; Optical network units; Optical wavelength conversion; Passive optical networks; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Time division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

Filename

5465433