Demonstration of a symmetric 10 Gb/s QPSK subcarrier multiplexed WDM PON with IM/DD transceivers and a bandwidth-limited RSOA

Author

Buset, J.M. ; El-Sahn, Ziad A. ; Plant, David V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada

fYear

2013

fDate

17-21 March 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Full-duplex 10 Gb/s/λ transmission is demonstrated over a 20 km single feeder WDM PON. BER performance below the RS(255,223) FEC threshold is achieved for OLT launch powers, ranging from 0 dBm to 9 dBm, proving flexibility to network operators.

Keywords

error statistics; forward error correction; optical modulation; optical transceivers; passive optical networks; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; BER performance; IM-DD transceivers; OLT launch power; QPSK subcarrier multiplexed WDM PON; RS(255,223) FEC threshold; bandwidth-limited RSOA; bit error statistic performance; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; full-duplex transmission; network operators; passive optical networks; wavelength-division multiplexing; Digital signal processing; Downlink; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Phase shift keying; Uplink; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0457-0

Type

conf

Filename

6532677