OLT Receiver for Power Normalization of Burst OFDM Signals Enabling OFDM/TDMA-PON

Author

Sang-Yuep Kim ; Kani, Jun-ichi ; Suzuki, Ken-Ichi ; Otaka, Akihiro

Author_Institution

NTT Access Network Service Syst. Labs., NTT Corp., Yokosuka, Japan

Volume

26

Issue

24

fYear

2014

fDate

Dec.15, 15 2014

Firstpage

2469

Lastpage

2472

Abstract

An optical line terminal receiver, composed of an optical gain-control stage based on an optical coherent detection followed by an electrical front-end amplifier, is verified to be able to normalize upstream burst orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals with different power levels, thus alleviating a substantial limiting factor in OFDM/time division multiplexing access-passive optical network (PON) system development. A receiver dynamic range of 25 dB and system power budget of 29 dB are achieved. Experiments confirm that the receiver meets the linearity requirement posed by OFDM signals while satisfying the dynamic range and power budget specified by the current PON standards.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; amplifiers; optical control; optical fibre communication; optical receivers; passive optical networks; time division multiplexing; OFDM/TDMA-PON; OFDM/time division multiplexing access-passive optical network system development; OLT receiver; PON standard; burst OFDM signals; electrical front-end amplifier; linearity requirement; optical coherent detection; optical gain-control stage; optical line terminal receiver; power levels; power normalization; receiver dynamic range; substantial limiting factor; system power budget; upstream burst orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signals; OFDM; Optical amplifiers; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Receivers; optical fiber communication; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM); passive optical network (PON);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2014.2359016

Filename

6907957