SUPER PON-a fiber to the home cable network for CATV and POTS/ISDN/VOD as economical as a coaxial cable network

Author

Tan, Anton H H

Author_Institution

KPN Research, Leidschendam, Netherlands

Volume

15

Issue

2

fYear

1997

fDate

2/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

213

Lastpage

218

Abstract

A complete super PON fiber to the home cable network as economical as the classic coaxial cable network, designed for application in the local loop is presented. The concept uses high power lasers, remote pumped erbium doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) to reduce cost by high splitting ratio, economical receivers for the downstream direction and economical CD player lasers for the upstream direction. Several novel technical solutions for this application (a new method to avoid stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS), remote pumping of the EDFA and a compensating technique to adapt the CD laser to the normal fiber) are presented

Keywords

cable television; fibre lasers; optical fibre subscriber loops; optical pumping; stimulated Brillouin scattering; CATV; ISDN; POTS; SBS; SUPER PON fiber; VOD; coaxial cable network; compensating technique; downstream direction; economical; economical CD player lasers; economical receivers; fiber to the home cable network; high power lasers; high splitting ratio; local loop; novel technical solutions; remote pumped erbium doped fiber amplifiers; remote pumping; stimulated Brillouin scattering; upstream direction; Brillouin scattering; Coaxial cables; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Optical fiber cables; Passive optical networks; Power generation economics; Power lasers; Pump lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.554326

Filename

554326