Demonstration of a Coherent UDWDM-PON with Real-Time Processing

• DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2011.pdpd4
• Publication Date: 2013-04-12T20:34:46Z
• Authors: Sylvia Smolorz; Erich Gottwald; Harald Rohde; David Smith; Alistair Poustie
• Keywords: 0211 other engineering and technologies; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology

A filterless coherent PON with channel spacing down to 2.8 GHz and real-time processing in an FPGA is demonstrated. 64-channel operation is verified experimentally using SSB generation at the OLT and fully integrated ONU transceivers.