All-optical upstream carrier generation scheme for optical network unit using a Brillouin/erbium fiber laser

作者：Leng Lufeng^*; Le Thinh

来源：Optical Engineering, 2009, 48(6): 065001.

DOI：10.1117/1.3156050

• Brillouin/erbium fiber laser (BEFL)
• all-optical carrier generation
• Rayleigh scattering crosstalk
• optical network unit (ONU)

An all-optical upstream carrier generation scheme based on a Brillouin/erbium fiber laser (BEFL) is proposed for wavelength-independent optical network units in a wavelength-division multiplexed passive optical network. Experimental measurements show that the BEFL mainly operates in a single longitudinal mode and occasionally undergoes mode hopping given environmental fluctuations. Employing the proposed scheme, bidirectional transmission at 1.25-Gb/s over 20-km single-mode fiber is performed. Bit error rate measurement shows no crosstalk originating from Rayleigh backscattering and back-reflections in the network, due to a 0.08-nm-wavelength shift between the downstream and upstream carriers.

• 出版日期2009-6