Bi-directional ultra-dense polarization-diverse OFDM/WDM PON with laserless colorless 1Gb/s ONUs based on Si PICs and <417 MHz mixed-signal ICs

Author

Agmon, A. ; Nazarathy, Moshe ; Marom, Dan M. ; Ben-Ezra, S. ; Tolmachev, Alex ; Killey, Robert ; Bayvel, Polina ; Meder, L. ; Hubner, Michael ; Meredith, W. ; Vickers, G. ; Schindler, Philipp C. ; Schmogrow, R. ; Hillerkuss, D. ; Freude, W. ; Leuthold, Ju

Author_Institution

EE Dept., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel

fYear

2013

fDate

17-21 March 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We introduce a next-gen OFDM/WDM spectral architecture symmetrically serving 40G/40G to 4 ODNs (4×64 users) per 4×12.5 GHz dense λ -s, with low-cost energy-efficient self-coherent photonic-integrated ONUs with down/up 16-QAM OFDM polarization diversity.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; next generation networks; passive optical networks; quadrature amplitude modulation; spectral analysis; wavelength division multiplexing; ODN; PIC; QAM OFDM polarization diversity; bidirectional ultra-dense polarization-diverse OFDM/WDM PON; laserless colorless ONU; low-cost energy-efficient self-coherent photonic-integrated ONU; mixed-signal IC; next-gen OFDM/WDM spectral architecture; Integrated optics; OFDM; Optical fibers; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; 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

6532878