Efficient carrier-reuse for intensity modulation and direct detection passive optical networks with Rayleigh backscattering noise circumvention

Xiaoling Zhang; Chongfu Zhang; Chen Chen; Wei Jin; Kun Qiu

doi:10.1117/1.OE.57.6.066113

19 June 2018 Efficient carrier-reuse for intensity modulation and direct detection passive optical networks with Rayleigh backscattering noise circumvention

Xiaoling Zhang, Chongfu Zhang, Chen Chen, Wei Jin, Kun Qiu

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 57, Issue 6, 066113 (June 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.57.6.066113

Abstract

We propose an efficient carrier-reuse scheme for intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD) passive optical networks (PONs) with Rayleigh backscattering (RB) noise circumvention. In our proposed system, the number of light sources is halved since no extra light sources are required for the upstream (US) transmission, and the RB noise is eliminated without using any high cost ultra-narrow filter or coherent detection. The proposed scheme efficiently utilizes orthogonal frequency division multiplexing-based carrierless amplitude and phase modulation in the downstream, where signal multiplexing and demultiplexing are performed by digital filtering. Meanwhile, the high spectrum efficiency optical single-side band (SSB) Nyquist pulse-shaped pulse amplitude modulation-4 signal is generated by utilizing dual-drive Mach–Zehnder modulator in the US. In addition, the effect of phase-to-intensity conversion of the laser phase noise on bidirectional SSB systems over 25-km standard single-mode fiber on bit error rate performance is evaluated. Results successfully verify the feasibility of our proposed efficient carrier-reuse scheme for IM/DD PONs.

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Xiaoling Zhang, Chongfu Zhang, Chen Chen, Wei Jin, and Kun Qiu "Efficient carrier-reuse for intensity modulation and direct detection passive optical networks with Rayleigh backscattering noise circumvention," Optical Engineering 57(6), 066113 (19 June 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.57.6.066113

Received: 20 December 2017; Accepted: 31 May 2018; Published: 19 June 2018

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