Upstream Access and Local Area Networking in Passive Optical Networks Using Self-Seeded Reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

• Published in: IEEE photonics technology letters Vol. 19; no. 19; pp. 1559 - 1561
• Main Authors: Nadarajah, N., Ka Lun Lee, Nirmalathas, A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.10.2007; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Bandwidth; Bragg gratings; Channels; Data transmission; Fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs); Fiber gratings; local area network (LAN); Local area networks; Optical communication; Optical fiber LAN; Optical network units; Optical receivers; passive optical network (PON); Passive optical networks; reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA); self-seeding; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic engineering; Traffic flow; Upstream; Wavelengths
• ISSN: 1041-1135; 1941-0174
• DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.903858

A scheme for upstream access and local area networking in passive optical networks (PONs) using a single self-seeded reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA) placed in customer premises is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The self-seeding of the RSOA is performed with the use of fiber Bragg gratings placed at the customer premises to obtain two separate wavelength channels for the transmission of upstream access traffic and local area network traffic. The experimental results show that this scheme is capable of supporting high bandwidth data transmission in a PON.