Technologies for cost-effective udWDM-PONs

New technologies for ultradense WDM-PON (udWDM-PON), enabled by coherent techniques and low-cost devices, are developed for an efficient utilization of the optical spectrum, revealing that the “Wavelength-to-the-User” concept can be feasible. In this paper, an udWDM-PON with only 6.25-GHz channel sp...

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Autores: Prat Gomà, Josep Joan|||0000-0002-9817-4695, Cano Valadez, Iván Nicolás, Presi, Marco, Tomkos, Ioannis, Klonidis, Dimitrios, Vall-llosera, Gema, Brenot, Romain, Pous, R., Papastergiou, george, Rafel, Albert, Ciaramella, Ernesto
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/102914
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/102914
https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2015.2499381
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Optical fiber communication
Wavelength division multiplexing
Access networks
Fiber optical communications
Fiber-to-the-home
PON
WDM
Òptica de fibres
Multiplexatge per divisió de freqüència
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telecomunicació òptica
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Sumario:New technologies for ultradense WDM-PON (udWDM-PON), enabled by coherent techniques and low-cost devices, are developed for an efficient utilization of the optical spectrum, revealing that the “Wavelength-to-the-User” concept can be feasible. In this paper, an udWDM-PON with only 6.25-GHz channel spacing is implemented with conventional DFB lasers, for a splitter-based PON infrastructure with 256 ONUs. The results of the analysis of udWDM access network architecture with respect to their associated complexity, cost, and migration scenarios, exhibit the potential for higher aggregate throughput, higher split ratios, and node consolidation, when compared to competing technologies.