Upstream performance improvement of low cost 10Gb/s ONUs with centralized OLT equalizer and FEC

• Published in: 2012 14th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)
• Main Authors: Cano Valadéz, Iván Nicolás, Porto, S., Naughton, A., Ossieur, P., Townsend, P.D., Lázaro Villa, José Antonio, Prat Gomà, Josep Joan
• Other Authors: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. GCO - Grup de Comunicacions Òptiques
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2012
• Subjects: Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telecomunicació òptica; Passive optical networks; DML; MLSE; PON; R-EAM-SOA; Xarxes òptiques passives
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/87193; https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253715

An access optical network based on 10Gb/s DML and R-EAM-SOA as transmitters was experimentally tested with a centralized MLSE equalizer to compensate for the chirp, dispersion and RB. Several scenarios were studied and results indicate that the fibre distance reach can be improved by 50% with the use of MLSE and FEC. Peer Reviewed Postprint (published version)