Long-reach transmission experiment of a wavelength division multiplexed-passive optical networks transmitter based on reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers

Sie-Wook Jeon; Youngbok Kim; Chang-Soo Park

doi:10.1117/1.OE.51.1.015008

31 January 2012 Long-reach transmission experiment of a wavelength division multiplexed-passive optical networks transmitter based on reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers

Sie-Wook Jeon, Youngbok Kim, Chang-Soo Park

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 51, Issue 1, 015008 (January 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.1.015008

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a long-reach wavelength division multiplexed-passive optical networks (WDM-PON) based on reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers (RSOAs) with easy maintenance of the optical source. Unlike previous studies the proposed WDM-PON uses two RSOAs: one for wavelength-selected light generation to provide a constant seed light to the second RSOA, the other for active external modulation. This method is free from intensity-fluctuated power penalties inherent to directly modulated single-RSOA sources, making long-reach transmission possible. Also, the wavelength of the modulated signal can easily be changed for the same RSOA by replacing the external feedback reflector, such as a fiber Bragg grating, or via thermal tuning. The seed light has a high-side-mode suppression ratio (SMSR) of 45 dB, and the bit error rate (BER) curve reveals that the upstream 1.25-Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) signal with a pseudo-random binary sequence (PRBS) of length of 2¹⁵-1 has power penalties of 0.22 and 0.69 dB at BERs of 10^-9 after 55-km and 110-km transmission due to fiber dispersion, respectively.

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Sie-Wook Jeon, Youngbok Kim, and Chang-Soo Park "Long-reach transmission experiment of a wavelength division multiplexed-passive optical networks transmitter based on reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers," Optical Engineering 51(1), 015008 (31 January 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.1.015008

Published: 31 January 2012

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