Title
Low cost coherent receivers for UD-WDM NRZ systems in access networks
Abstract
This paper presents the first experimental achievements of the COCONUT project which aims at demonstrating ultra-dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing Passive Optical Networks (udWDM-PON) by means of low-cost coherent solutions. COCONUT should exploit low-cost optical components and simple electronics so that the cost of typical line terminals would be affordable to the end-users. Among different technical approaches considered within the project; we focus here on the solutions based on simple OOK-NRZ format. We developed an original improvement of the conventional phase-diversity coherent detection schemes providing for polarization independent operations without doubling the receiver structure. As a result we demonstrated that passive networks of high-power budget (> 45 dB i.e. up to 60 km reach and more than 64-way power splitting) are feasible over a 6.25 GHz grid by using a limited number of photodiodes a simplified analog processing and free-running DFBs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876279
Transparent Optical Networks
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
amplitude shift keying,passive optical networks,wavelength division multiplexing,coconut project,ook nrz format,ud wdm nrz systems,access networks,line terminals,low cost coherent receivers,low cost optical components,phase diversity coherent detection schemes,simple electronics,udwdm pon,ultradense wavelength division multiplexing passive optical networks,passive optical network (pon) wavelength division multiplexing (wdm) converged access network coherent systems,optical filters
Conference
2162-7339
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
marco presi100.34
f bottoni200.34
r corsini300.34
g cossu400.34
Ernesto Ciaramella53612.16