300 Gb/s IM/DD based SDM-WDM-PON with laserless ONUs

Fangdi Bao, Toshio Morioka, Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe, Hao Hu*

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Abstract

A low-cost, high-speed SDM-WDM-PON architecture is proposed by using a multi-core fiber (MCF) and intensity modulation/directly detection (IM/DD). One of the MCF cores is used for sending laser sources from optical line terminal (OLT) to optical network unit (ONU), thus facilitating laserless and colorless ONUs, and providing ease of network management and maintenance. In addition, the wavelengths of the ONUs are controlled on the OLT side, which also enables flexible optical networks. Thanks to the low inter-core crosstalk of a MCF, downstream (DS) and upstream (US) signals are transmitted independently in different cores of the MCF, not only increasing the aggregated capacity but also avoiding the Rayleigh backscattering noise. Finally, a proof-of-principle experiment is performed by using a 7-core fiber, achieving 300 /120 Gb/s aggregated capacity for DS and US (3 × cores, 4 × wavelengths, 25/10 Gb/s per wavelength), respectively.
Original languageEnglish
JournalOptics Express
Volume26
Issue number7
Pages (from-to)7949-7954
ISSN1094-4087
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

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