IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
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Proposal of Spectrum-Interleaved Duplex WDM-PON Using Spectrum-Sliced Broadband Incoherent Light with Reflection Remover
Manabu YOSHINOJunichi KANINoriki MIKINaoto YOSHIMOTOHisaya HADAMA
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2011 Volume E94.B Issue 12 Pages 3429-3436

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A Wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network (WDM-PON) system that uses spectrum-sliced broadband incoherent light is attractive because it avoids the cost of operating/administering wavelengths in optical network units (ONU) at customer premises. However, it is difficult to enhance the spectrum efficiency to ensure a sufficient signal to noise ratio because it would demand broad channel width. To overcome this problem, we proposed a spectrum-interleaved duplex technique. It enables upstream and downstream communications to share one channel by using a cyclic filter. This sharing of one channel eliminates the need for a guard interval between signal lights duplexed in the channel. One residual issue regarding single band transmission is its robustness to reflection in the transmission medium. To increase the reflection robustness of the spectrum-interleaved duplex scheme, we propose a reflection remover based on an optical code division multiplexing technique. We also evaluate the extent to which capacity of the spectrum efficiency of the spectrum-interleaved duplex WDM-PON system that uses spectrum-sliced broadband incoherent light can be increased.

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© 2011 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
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