Demonstration of a 32×512 split, 100 km reach, 2×32×10 gb/s hybrid DWDM-TDMA pon using tunable external cavity lasers in the onus

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 3705-3718

  Ossieur, Peter ^a   Antony, Cleitus ^a   Naughton, Alan ^a   Clarke, Aisling M ^a   Krimmel, Heinz Georg ^b   Yin, Xin ^c   Qiu, Xing Zhi ^c   Ford, Colin ^d   Borghesani, Anna ^d   Moodie, David ^d   Poustie, Alistair ^d   Wyatt, Richard ^d   Harmon, Bob ^d   Lealman, Ian ^d   Maxwell, Graeme ^d   Rogers, Dave ^d   Smith, David W ^d   Smolorz, Sylvia ^e   Rohde, Harald ^e   Nesset, Derek ^f   Davey, Russell P ^f   Townsend, Paul D ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d Centre for Integrated Photonics   (United Kingdom)

^e NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS   (Germany)

^f MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burst mode receiver (BMRx); Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM); Electroabsorption modulator (EAM); Erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA); Passive optical network (PON); Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); Tunable laser

Indexed keywords

BURST MODE RECEIVERS; DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (DWDM); ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATOR (EAM); ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER (EDFA); PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA);

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATORS; ERBIUM; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; LASER TUNING; LASERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SALES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; WAVELENGTH;

TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 83455169584     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2173459     Document Type: Article

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