Power budget improvement of symmetric 40 Gb/s TWDM based PON2 system utilizing DMLs and DCF technique

• Main Authors: Bindhaiq, S., Zulkifli, N., Supa'at, A. S. M., Idrus, S. M., Salleh, M. S.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V. 2018
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/83976/1/SalemBindhaiq2018_PowerBudgetImprovementofSymmetric.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/83976/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2017.09.027

In this paper, we propose to use optical dispersion compensation based on the widely deployed compensating fiber (DCF) employing directly modulated lasers (DMLs) to improve the power budget in a symmetric 40 Gb/s time and wavelength division multiplexed-passive optical network (TWDM-PON) systems. Th...