A new single-fiber 10-Gb/s optical loopback method using phase modulation for WDM optical access networks

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 786-795

  Yoshida, Tomoaki ^a,b   Kimura, Shunji ^a,b   Kimura, Hideaki ^b   Kumozaki, Kiyomi ^a,b   Imai, Takamasa ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Access networks; Loopback; Optical fiber communications; Optical reflection; Phase modulation; Single fiber; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

ACCESS NETWORKS; OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORKS; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATIONS; OPTICAL REFLECTION;

BIT ERROR RATE; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; SYNCHRONIZATION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

PHASE MODULATION;

EID: 33947409667     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.862441     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. R. D. Feldman, E. E. Harstead, S. Jiang, T. H. Wood, and M. Zirngibl, "An evaluation of architectures incorporating wavelength division multiplexing for broad-band fiber access," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 1546-1559, Sep. 1998.
2. N. J. Frigo, P. P. Iannone, P. D. Magill, T. E. Darcie, M. M. Downs, B. N. Desai, U. Koren, T. L. Koch, C. Dragone, H. M. Presby, and G. E. Bodeep, "A wavelength-division multiplexed passive optical network with cost-shared components," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 6, no. 11, pp. 1365-1367, Nov. 1994.
3. M. Okayasu, Y. Suzuki, N. Yoshimoto, R. Iga, H. Sugiura, and J. Yoshida, "Bi-directional transmission experiment using a semiconductor optical amplifier transceiver module for WDM-PON and WDM-LAN applications," in Proc. Eur. Conf. Networks and Optical Communications (NOC), Delft, The Netherlands, 1999, pp. 278-283.
4. P. Healey, P. Townsend, C. Ford, L. Johnston, P. Townley, I. Lealman, L. Rivers, S. Perrin, and R. Moore, "Reflective SOAs for spectrally sliced WDM-PONs," in Proc. Optical Fiber Commun. (OFC), Anaheim, CA, Feb. 2002, pp. 352-353.
5. H. Takesue and T. Sugie, "Wavelength channel data rewrite using saturated SOA modulator for WDM networks with centralized light sources," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 2546-2556, Nov. 2003.
6. A. Ohki, R. Sato, Y. Shibata, Y. Tomori, M. Mizuta, and Y. Suzuki, "Development of an ONU using a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier transmitter and its transmission characteristic," presented at the 8th Opto-Electronics and Communication Conf. (OECC), Shanghai, China, 2003, Paper 16D3-3.
7. I. T. Monroy, E. Tangdiongga, R. Jonker, and H. de Waardt, "Interferometric crosstalk reduction by phase scrambling," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 637-646, May 2000.
8. F. Heismann, D. A. Gray, B. H. Lee, and R. W. Smith, "Electrooptic polarization scramblers for optically amplified long-haul transmission systems," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 6, no. 9, pp. 1156-1158, Sep. 1994.
9. T. H. Wood, R. A. Linke, B. L. Kasper, and E. C. Carr, "Observation of coherent Rayleigh noise in single-source bidirectional optical fiber systems," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 346-352, Feb. 1988.
10. P. T. Legg, M. Tur, and I. Andonovic, "Solution paths to limit interferometric noise induced performance degradation in ASK/direct detection lightwave networks," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 14, no. 9, pp. 1943-1953, Sep. 1996.
11. P. K. Pepeljugoski and K. Y. Lau, "Interferometic noise reduction in fiberoptic links by superposition of high frequency modulation," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 957-963, Jul. 1992.
12. A. R. Charaplyvy, R. W. Tkach, L. L. Buhl, and R. C. Alferness, "Phase modulation to amplitude modulation conversion of CW laser light in optical fibers," Electron. Lett., vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 409-411, Apr. 1986.
13. N. S. Bergano, C. R. Davidson, and F. Heismann, "Bit-synchronous polarisation and phase modulation scheme for improving the performance of optical amplifier transmission systems," Electron. Lett., vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 52-54, Jan. 1996.
14. S. Yamamoto, N. Edagawa, H. Taga, Y. Yoshida, and H. Wakabayashi, "Analysis of laser phase noise to intensity noise conversion by chromatic dispersion in intensity modulation and direct detection optical-fiber transmission," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 1716-1722, Nov. 1990.
15. ITU-T Recommendation G.652, Characteristics of a single-mode optical fibre and cable, Oct. 2000.