학술논문

Migrating Legacy PON Equipment towards Colorless ONU through Hybrid Integrated SOI All-Optical λ-Converter
Document Type
Conference
Source
OFC/NFOEC Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. :1-3 Mar, 2012
Subject
Photonics and Electrooptics
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Optical wavelength conversion
Optical network units
Semiconductor optical amplifiers
Passive optical networks
Optical filters
Wavelength division multiplexing
Optical interferometry
Language
Abstract
We present an ONU featuring a "colorless" DML enabled by a wavelength converter integrated on a 4μm silicon-on-insulator substrate. The photonic chip employs a hybrid integrated SOA and delay-interferometers and supports operation beyond 10Gb/s.