Title :
New concept for ONU amplified ODN and demonstration of 80 Gbit/s TWDM-PON with 44 km reach and 512 split
Author :
W. Poehlmann;R. Bonk;H. Schmuck;Th. Pfeiffer
Author_Institution :
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Stuttgart, Germany
Abstract :
We propose remote amplification by reusing optical amplifiers in the ONU as in-line amplifiers in a power line independent switched splitter and show that the budget can be substantially increased compared to an unamplified ODN.
Keywords :
"Optical network units","Optical switches","Optical fibers","Passive optical networks","Optical transmitters","Receivers"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341825
