JOURNAL ARTICLE

2.1-Tb/s·km OFDM Long-Reach PON Transmission using a Cost-Effective Electro-Absorption Modulator

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a superior performance of 2.1-Tb/s·km OFDM-signal transmission over 100-km long-reach PONs, which is achieved by using an EAM and direct-detection, and adopting the 128-QAM format and adaptive subcarrier power weighting.

Keywords:
Subcarrier Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing Transmission (telecommunications) Quadrature amplitude modulation Modulation (music) QAM Electronic engineering SIGNAL (programming language) Power (physics) Computer science Passive optical network Telecommunications Bit error rate Optoelectronics Materials science Physics Wavelength-division multiplexing Engineering Acoustics Decoding methods

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Topics

Optical Network Technologies
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Photonic and Optical Devices
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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