Abstract
A novel technique is proposed for optical frequency comb generation with a budget friendly system. A Mach-Zehnder modulator is used in connectivity with continuous wave optical signal which is filtered by rectangle optical filter and the signal is then amplified by erbium-doped fiber amplifier. With a frequency spacing of 10GHz 33 useable OFC lines were generated with good tone to noise ratio which is quite impressive for such a cost effective setup. Each generated carrier carries differential phase shift keying based data of 10Gbps. A total of 330Gbps multiplexed data is successfully transmitted through a standard single mode fiber length of 25-km. During the downlink transmission the power penalties are observed to be negligible. The resulted eye diagrams are wide and promises to be a good system for wavelength division multiplexed-passive optical network.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Pages (from-to) | 129-135 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Journal of Optical Communications |
Volume | 39 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 20 Dec 2017 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- DPSK (Differential phase shift keying)
- MZM (Mach-Zehnder Modulator)
- OFCG (Optical frequency comb generator)
- SSMF (Standard single mode fiber)
- WDM-PON (wavelength division multiplexed-passive optical network)