Effect of AWG filtering on spectrally sliced WDM PONs

Sareh Taebi; Simarjeet Singh Saini

doi:10.1117/12.888672

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18 February 2011 Effect of AWG filtering on spectrally sliced WDM PONs

Sareh Taebi, Simarjeet Singh Saini

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Proceedings Volume 7988, Optical Transmission Systems, Switching, and Subsystems VIII; 798811 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.888672
Event: Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition, 2010, Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Abstract

In incoherent-injected WDM-PONs, it is shown through simulations and experiments that Flat-band athermal AWGs with channel spacing of 100GHz have improved performance in terms of BER than their Gaussian-shape counterpart, due to the effect of signal filtering. At a BER of 10-9, the power penalty is 2 dB for Flat-band AWGs and more than 4 dB for Gaussian AWGs, which do not reach the required BER. In addition, the effect of AWG detuning in the WDM-PON systems is investigated. It is shown that by detuning the two Flat-band AWGs by 40GHz from their center wavelength, an additional 0.5dB power penalty is induced.

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Sareh Taebi and Simarjeet Singh Saini "Effect of AWG filtering on spectrally sliced WDM PONs", Proc. SPIE 7988, Optical Transmission Systems, Switching, and Subsystems VIII, 798811 (18 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.888672

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