Abstract
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel colorless full-duplex passive optical network (PON) access architecture. Utilizing orthogonal codes and correlation receiving methods, the novel PON can mitigate the optical beat interference (OBI) noise induced by Rayleigh backscattering (RB). A pair of electrical orthogonal codes is generated and modulated at the same wavelength in the optical line terminal (OLT). Then, modulated optical signals are transmitted from the OLT to the optical network units (ONUs). One of the codes is for downstream signal coding, and the other is used as the upstream seed. In the ONU, the upstream signal is remodulated without erasing the downstream signal. Neither extra centralized continuous wave (CW) light sources nor gain-saturated reflective semiconductor optical amplifier is required. By using these orthogonal codes, the spectral overlap between upstream signal and downstream signal in the full-duplex system is reduced, which can mitigate the OBI noise significantly. The performance of transmission and power margin is investigated through the experiments with different transmission distances. The remodulated upstream signals are recovered by correlation algorithm in the OLT. By correlation algorithm, we can get coding gain, which is important in long-reach transmissions. Because of coding gain and the OBI noise mitigation, a link power margin of 4-10 dB can be achieved for 5 Gb/s downstream and 1.25 Gb/s upstream, when the transmission distance is from 20 to 70 km.
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