Title :
10 Gb/s bidirectional transmission in a 116 km reach hybrid DWDM-TDM PON
Author :
MacHale, E.K. ; Talli, G. ; Townsend, P.D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Univ. Coll. Cork, Ireland
Abstract :
We report bidirectional transmission at 10 Gb/s over a 116 km-reach DWDM amplified PON using remote reflective modulation of an optical carrier. The full network supports up to 1088 customers with mean data rates of 155 Mb/s.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; optical modulation; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 116 km; 155 Mbit/s; bidirectional transmission; hybrid DWDM-TDM PON; remote reflective modulation; Costs; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical network units; Optical sensors; Passive optical networks; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-803-9
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2006.215957