Bidirectional Wavelength Division Multiplexed-passive Optical Network Research Articles

Enhancing performance and optimization of multichannel bidirectional WDM-PON with hybrid optical amplifiers employing diverse post dispersion compensation schemes

Abstract This paper is successfully demonstrated simulative comparison and investigation of 32 channels with 0.8 nm frequency spacing bidirectional wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network (WDM-PON) having 640 and 320 GB/s data rate in downstream and upstream transmission by using CRZ-DPSK/NRZ modulation formats respectively. The maximum reach of the system has been configured to 100 km by employing different post-dispersion compensation techniques such as EDC, DCF, OPC, and FBG in uplink and downlink transmission for compensate the effect of chromatic dispersion in propagating channel. An EDFA optical amplifier is placed after DCF for boosting the amplitude of weak signals downstream. Apart from this, the RSOA amplifier is installed at the ONT end for reflecting and re-modulates the same wavelengths to the CO terminal without using any external optical light source. The performance comparison of distinct compensation schemes are evaluated in terms of BER, Q factor, and Eye diagrams. It has been observed that the FBG and DCF are more robust compensation techniques as compared to EDC and OPC in the bidirectional WDM-PON. The maximum satisfying value of BER has been observed in downlink and uplink transmissions are 10−26 and 10−13 for FBG and DCF respectively.

Enhanced noise tolerance for 10 Gb/s Bi-directional cross-wavelength reuse colorless WDM-PON by using spectrally shaped OFDM signals

Abstract Spectrally shaped orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal for symmetric 10 Gb/s cross-wavelength reuse reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA) based colorless wavelength division multiplexed passive optical network (WDM-PON) is proposed and further analyzed to support broadband services of next generation high speed optical access networks. The generated OFDM signal has subcarriers in separate frequency ranges for downstream and upstream, such that the re-modulation noise can be effectively minimized in upstream data receiver. Moreover, the cross wavelength reuse approach improves the tolerance against Rayleigh backscattering noise due to the propagation of different wavelengths in the same feeder fiber. The proposed WDM-PON is successfully demonstrated for 25 km fiber with 16-QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) OFDM signal having bandwidth of 2.5 GHz for 10 Gb/s operation and subcarrier frequencies in 3–5.5 GHz and DC-2.5 GHz for downstream (DS) and upstream (US) transmission respectively. The result shows that the proposed scheme maintains a good bit error rate (BER) performance below the forward error correction (FEC) limit of 3.8 × 10−3 at acceptable receiver sensitivity and provides a high resilience against re-modulation and Rayleigh backscattering noises as well as chromatic dispersion.

Performance Enhancement of Multichannel Gigabit Rate Bidirectional WDM-PON Using RSOA and Optimized Modulation Format

AbstractThis paper successfully demonstrates bidirectional wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network (WDM-PON) system for 32 channels, 0.8 nm (100 GHz) channels spacing with 3.5 GHz filter bandwidth. The system delivers 160 GB/s data rate and 80 GB/s data rate in downstream and upstream, respectively. The optical source for downstream data and upstream data is mode-locked laser at central office and reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA) at optical network unit. The maximum reach of designed system is 50 km without using any dispersion compensation scheme. This paper comprises comparison of series of modulation format in downstream and upstream such as SOLITON, NRZ, RZ, MANCHESTER, CSRZ and CRZ-DPSK and optimization of the performance of designed system. It has been observed that CRZ-DPSK/NRZ gives best performance in downstream and upstream transmission for designed system. The simulation work report of minimum BER is e

An Amplified WDM-PON Using Broadband Light Source Seeded Optical Sources and a Novel Bidirectional Reach Extender

We demonstrated the feasibility of an amplified wavelength-division multiplexed passive optical network (WDM-PON) architecture based on broadband light source (BLS) seeded optical sources and a novel bidirectional reach extender. Our bidirectional reach extender could provide an amplification of both downstream and upstream signals as well as a BLS output for the upstream WDM signal generation. An error-free 1.25 Gb/s signal transmission over a 100-km long single-mode fiber was achieved in a bidirectional WDM-PON using BLS seeded reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA) sources.

Reflective SOA-Based Bidirectional WDM-PON Sharing Optical Source for Up/Downlink Data and Broadcasting Transmission

We proposed and experimentally demonstrated the reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA)-based wavelength-division-multiplexed passive optical network (WDM-PON) scheme where not only up/downlink data services but also broadcasting service could be provided using a single optical source. In the proposed scheme, the digital signal and subcarrier multiplexing (SCM) signal for downstream were simultaneously modulated by a single distributed feedback laser diode and RSOA in optical network unit remodulated downstream source as an upstream. Without performance deterioration of digital signals both in up- and downstream, the proposed WDM-PON scheme can stably offer the SCM signal for broadcasting service. In the experiment, 1-Gb/s digital signals both for up- and downstream and 20-Mb/s SCM signal at 2.2 GHz for broadcasting were demonstrated in 10-km bidirectional link

Employing injection-locked Fabry–Perot laser diodes to improve bidirectional WDM–PON performances

We proposed and demonstrated a bidirectional wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM)–passive optical network (PON) employing injection-locked Fabry–Perot laser diodes (FP LDs) at both transmitting sites, and adaptive filters at both receiving sites. Injection-locked FP LDs, a particularly inexpensive option, are used to replace the conventional distributed feedback (DFB) LDs in WDM–PON. Adaptive filters are attractive because they can track the variations and compensate the nonlinear distortions. Transmission performance over 20km of a standard single-mode fiber (SMF) was investigated. Improved performance of bit error rate (BER), better and clear eye diagram were achieved in our proposed WDM–PON.

HDTV/Gigabit Ethernet over bidirectional WDM–PON based on injection-locked Fabry–Perot laser diodes

Bidirectional high definition television (HDTV)/Gigabit Ethernet over wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM)-passive optical network (PON) based on injection-locked Fabry–Perot laser diodes (FP LDs) as transmitters were proposed and demonstrated. Injection-locked FP LDs, a particularly inexpensive option, are used to replace conventional distributed feedback (DFB) LDs. Services with 77 HDTV channels and 1 Gigabit Ethernet channel connection were successfully demonstrated over 40km single-mode fiber (SMF) transport. Good performance of bit error rate (BER) and clear eye diagram were achieved in our proposed bidirectional WDM–PON.