Title :
Spectral shaping for mitigating backreflections in a bidirectional 10 Gbit/s coherent WDM-PON
Author :
Lavery, Domanic ; Paskov, Milen ; Savory, Seb J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, London, UK
Abstract :
Receiver sensitivity penalty due to backreflections in a 10 Gbit/s bidirectional coherent WDM-PON is evaluated for 3 GBd PDM-QPSK. Pulse shaping is applied to reduce the impact of backreflections and enable tolerance to reflections up to -20 dBm.
Keywords :
optical pulse shaping; optical receivers; passive optical networks; quadrature phase shift keying; spectral analysis; wavelength division multiplexing; PDM-QPSK; backreflections mitigation; bidirectional coherent WDM-PON; pulse shaping; receiver sensitivity penalty; spectral shaping; Optical network units; Optical pulse shaping; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters; Sensitivity;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0457-0
