Title :
Colourless real-time optical OFDM end-to-end transmission at 7.5Gb/s over 25km SSMF using 1GHz RSOAs for WDM-PONs
Author :
Giddings, R.P. ; Hugues-Salas, E. ; Jin, X.Q. ; Wei, J.L. ; Tang, J.M.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. Eng., Bangor Univ., Bangor, UK
Abstract :
Colourless real-time 16-QAM optical OFDM end-to-end transmission at 7.5 Gb/s over 25 km SSMF is demonstrated experimentally, for the first time, using variable power loading and live-optimised RSOA intensity modulators with modulation bandwidths as narrow as 1 GHz.
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM-PON; bit rate 7.5 Gbit/s; colourless real-time 16-QAM optical OFDM end-to-end transmission; distance 25 km; live-optimised RSOA intensity modulators; modulation bandwidths; reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers; Intensity modulation; OFDM; Optical attenuators; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Transceivers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-884-1
