• DocumentCode
    600677
  • Title

    On the impact of backreflections in a bidirectional 10 Gbit/s coherent WDM-PON

  • Author

    Lavery, Domanic ; Behrens, C. ; Savory, Seb J.

  • Author_Institution
    Opt. Networks Group, UCL Electron. & Electr. Eng., London, UK
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    4-8 March 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    The impact of backreflections on receiver sensitivity in a bidirectional coherent WDM-PON is investigated. Channel spacing is swept from 4 GHz to 30 GHz using 3.125 GBaud PDM-QPSK channels.
  • Keywords
    optical receivers; passive optical networks; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; PDM-QPSK channels; backreflections; bidirectional coherent WDM-PON; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; channel spacing; frequency 4 GHz to 30 GHz; receiver sensitivity; Connectors; Optical network units; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Passive optical networks; Sensitivity;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • ISSN
    pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0262-3
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6476502