Hybrid coherence multiplexing/coarse wavelength-division multiplexing passive optical network for customer access

Author

Cahill, M.J.L. ; Pendock, G.J. ; Sampson, D.D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Parkville, Vic., Australia

Volume

9

Issue

7

fYear

1997

fDate

7/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1032

Lastpage

1034

Abstract

We propose a passive optical network for customer access based on a hybrid coherence multiplexing/coarse wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) technique. Coherence multiplexing provides asynchronous multichannel transmission, and coarse WDM provides bidirectional transmission. A cost-shared superfluorescent source is used for downstream transmission, and inexpensive lightemitting diodes are employed for upstream transmission. Asynchronous two channel transmission at 40 Mb/s per channel is demonstrated for both upstream and downstream. Our experiment indicates that upstream and downstream aggregate bit rates of 640 Mb/s are feasible based on current commercially available components.

Keywords

light coherence; light emitting diodes; optical fibre subscriber loops; superradiance; synchronisation; wavelength division multiplexing; 40 Mbit/s; 640 Mbit/s; LED; WDM; aggregate bit rates; asynchronous two channel transmission; bidirectional transmission; coherence multiplexing provides asynchronous multichannel transmission; commercially available components; cost-shared superfluorescent source; customer access; downstream transmission; hybrid coherence multiplexing/coarse wavelength-division multiplexing passive optical network; inexpensive light emitting diodes; passive optical network; upstream transmission; Coherence; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical network units; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Photonics; Power generation; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.593390

Filename

593390