Centralized light-wave WDM-PON employing DQPSK downstream and OOK remodulated upstream signals

Abstract A novel architecture for wavelength-division-multiplexing passive optical network (WDM-PON) with centralized light-wave is proposed and demonstrated. At the optical line terminal (OLT) session of this architecture, optical differential quadrature phase shift keying (DQPSK) modulated signal with constant-intensity at 10 Gbit/s is utilized for downstream transmission. At the optical network unit (ONU), part of the downstream optical power is remodulated with on-off keying (OOK) intensity modulation at 10 Gbit/s for upstream without additional laser. Simulation results show that the power penalties of the downstream for 20 km single-mode fiber (SMF) transmission and multi-channels are negligible. While for the upstream, the power penalties are obvious. The simulation results and analysis also reflect that by reducing the launch power of DQPSK transmitters, power penalties can be reduced, although the transmission distance is limited.