A Symmetric-Rate, Extended-Reach 40 Gb/s CWDM-TDMA PON With Downstream and Upstream SOA-Raman Amplification

Author

Reichmann, K.C. ; Iannone, P.P. ; Brinton, C. ; Nakagawa, J. ; Cusick, T. ; Kimber, M. ; Doerr, C. ; Buhl, L.L. ; Cappuzzo, M. ; Chen, E.Y. ; Gomez, L. ; Johnson, J. ; Kanan, A.M. ; Lentz, J. ; Chang, Y.F. ; Pálsdóttir, B. ; Tokle, T. ; Spiekman, L.

Author_Institution

AT&T Labs.-Res., Middletown, NJ, USA

Volume

30

Issue

4

fYear

2012

Firstpage

479

Lastpage

485

Abstract

We demonstrate an extended reach 60 km coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM)-time division multiple access (TDMA) passive optical network (PON) with 40 Gb/s capacity for both down and upstream directions. The system leverages existing 10 Gb/s TDMA PON technologies and incorporates various subsystems such as volume manufacturable optical transmitters, a prototype 10 Gb/s burst-mode receiver, hybrid semiconductor optical amplifier-Raman amplifiers, and a cyclic CWDM multiplexer. We confirm that this 32-user system has sufficient power margin to accommodate 128 users.

Keywords

Raman lasers; optical receivers; optical transmitters; passive optical networks; semiconductor optical amplifiers; time division multiple access; wavelength division multiplexing; CWDM-TDMA PON; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; burst-mode receiver; coarse wavelength division multiplexing; downstreamSOA-Raman amplification; optical transmitters; passive optical network; semiconductor optical amplifier; time division multiple access; upstream SOA-Raman amplification; Bit error rate; Gain; Optical fiber amplifiers; Passive optical networks; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Optical fiber communication;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2011.2173657

Filename

6061908