High output power and burst extinction ratio λ-tunable ONU transmitter using burst-mode booster SOA for WDM/TDM-PON

This paper proposes a high output power and high burst extinction ratio wavelength (λ)-tunable optical network unit (ONU) transmitter for long-reach and high-splitting ratio wavelength-division multiplexing and time-division multiplexing passive optical network (WDM/TDM-PON) systems. Our λ-tunable ONU burst-mode transmitter (B-Tx) utilizes a simply configured burst-mode controlled booster semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) that employs the pattern effect mitigation technique of gain peak detuning. A high output power and burst extinction ratio are successfully achieved at all upstream wavelength channels, over +10.0 dBm and 66.0 dB, respectively. This burst extinction ratio performance satisfies the ONU requirement for a 64-split WDM/TDM-PON with crosstalk penalty of better than under 0.1 dB. Moreover, the pattern effect is greatly mitigated and 40 km transmission penalty of under 0.8 dB is achieved. We successfully demonstrate over a 41 dB loss budget and 40 km reach λ-tunable WDM/TDM-PON without an optical-amplifier-based PON repeater.

[1]  M. Fujiwara,et al.  Field Trial of 100-km Reach Symmetric-Rate 10G-EPON System Using Automatic Level Controlled Burst-Mode SOAs , 2013, Journal of Lightwave Technology.

[2]  Kyo Inoue,et al.  Gain saturation dependence on signal wavelength in a travelling-wave semiconductor laser amplifier , 1987 .

[3]  K. Hara,et al.  New AC-Coupled Burst-Mode Optical Receiver Using Transient-Phenomena Cancellation Techniques for 10 Gbit/s-Class High-Speed TDM-PON Systems , 2010, Journal of Lightwave Technology.

[4]  Yuanqiu Luo,et al.  World's first XG-PON field trial , 2010, 2010 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication (OFC/NFOEC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference.

[5]  C.W. Chow,et al.  Long Reach Passive Optical Networks , 2007, LEOS 2007 - IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings.

[6]  Koichi Saito,et al.  Common technical specification of the G-PON system among major worldwide access carriers , 2006, IEEE Communications Magazine.

[7]  Hiromichi Shinohara.  Broadband access in Japan: rapidly growing FTTH market , 2005, IEEE Communications Magazine.

[8]  Naoto Yoshimoto,et al.  Long-reach λ-tunable WDM/TDM-PON using synchronized gain-clamping SOA technology [Invited] , 2013, IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking.

[9]  Jun Sugawa,et al.  Development of OLT using semiconductor optical amplifiers as booster and preamplifier for loss-budget extension in 10.3-Gb/s PON system , 2012, OFC/NFOEC.

[10]  Tomoaki Yoshida,et al.  First λ-tunable dynamic load-balancing operation enhanced by 3-msec bidirectional hitless tuning on symmetric 40-Gbit/s WDM/TDM-PON , 2014, OFC 2014.

[11]  S. Kimura,et al.  100-ns λ-selective burst-mode transceiver for 40-km reach symmetric 40-Gbit/s WDM/TDM-PON , 2013 .

[12]  Frank Geilhardt,et al.  Network operator requirements for the next generation of optical access networks , 2012, IEEE Network.

[13]  A. Shakouri,et al.  Push-pull fused vertical coupler switch , 1999, OFC/IOOC . Technical Digest. Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 1999, and the International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication.

[14]  Naoto Yoshimoto,et al.  High output power and burst extinction ratio ONU using a simple configuration booster SOA with gain peak detuning for WDM/TDM-PON , 2014, OFC 2014.

[15]  Naoki Suzuki,et al.  First demonstration of 10G-EPON and GE-PON co-existing system employing dual-rate burst-mode 3R transceiver , 2010, 2010 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication (OFC/NFOEC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference.

[16]  Masamichi Fujiwara,et al.  128 × 8 split and 80 km long-reach dual-rate 10G-EPON transmission using ALC hybrid burst-mode optical fiber amplifier and SOA pre-amplifier , 2011, 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication.

[17]  R.J.S. Pedersen,et al.  Experimental verification of a new model describing the influence of incomplete signal extinction ratio on the sensitivity degradation due to multiple interferometric crosstalk , 1999, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

[18]  Adel A. M. Saleh,et al.  Effects of semiconductor-optical-amplifier nonlinearity on the performance of high-speed intensity-modulation lightwave systems , 1990, IEEE Trans. Commun..