Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 8, Issue 10, 972(2010)
Novel WDM-PON architecture for simultaneous transmission of unicast data and multicast services
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," Chin. Opt. Lett. 8, 972 (2010)
Received: Apr. 2, 2010
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Published Online: Oct. 19, 2010
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