Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 8, Issue 10, 972(2010)

Novel WDM-PON architecture for simultaneous transmission of unicast data and multicast services

Min Zhu1,2, Shilin Xiao1, Wei Guo1, Weisheng Hu1, and Benoit Geller1
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  • 1State Key Lab of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • 2Lab of Electronics and Computer Engineering, ENSTA ParisTech, Paris 75739, France
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    We propose a novel wavelength-division multiplexed passive optical network (WDM-PON) to simultaneously transmit unicast data and multicast services with upstream data re-modulation in optical network units (ONUs). For each wavelength channel in the optical line terminal (OLT), the downstream unicast data are applied to one arm of a dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator (DPMZM) to generate baseband unicast non-return-to-zero (NRZ) signal. A radio frequency (RF) control signal is applied to the other arm to present two un-modulated sidebands for multicast data modulation in a differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) format. The flexible and dynamic multicast services are realized by simply switching the RF control signal on or off. The proposed scheme is experimentally demonstrated with 1.25-Gb/s downstream unicast, multicast, and upstream data.

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    Min Zhu, Shilin Xiao, Wei Guo, Weisheng Hu, Benoit Geller. Novel WDM-PON architecture for simultaneous transmission of unicast data and multicast services[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2010, 8(10): 972

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    Received: Apr. 2, 2010

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Oct. 19, 2010

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    DOI:10.3788/COL20100810.0972

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