Optical transceivers for fiber-to-the-premises applications: System requirements and enabling technologies

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-27

  Huang, Wei Ping ^a   Li, Xun ^a   Xu, Chang Qing ^a   Hong, Xiaobin ^a   Xu, Chenglin ^b,c   Liang, Wanguo ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fiber to the premises (FTTPs); Optical network terminal (ONT); Optical transceiver; Passive optical network (PON)

Indexed keywords

PHOTONICS; TECHNOLOGY; TRANSCEIVERS;

FIBER-TO-THE-PREMISES; OPTICAL NETWORK TERMINAL; OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER; PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 34147152692     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.888482     Document Type: Conference Paper

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