COL 10(12), 120602(2012) CHINESE OPTICS LETTERS December 10, 2012
Optical MIMO transmission for SCFDM-PON based on
polarization interleaving
Bangjiang Lin (
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State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks,
Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Corresponding author: juhao li@pku.edu.cn;
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corresponding author: chenzhy@pku.edu.cn
Received April 21, 2012; accepted July 10, 2012; posted online October 24, 2012
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing-passive optical network (OFDM-PON) and single-carrier fre-
quency division multiplexing (SCFDM)-PON are promising solutions for future high-speed PON -based
access. A polarization division multiplexing scheme with direct detection is proposed for OFDM-PO N to
effectively reduce bandwidth requirements for components. However, the scheme strictly requires spec-
trum overlapping of two orthogonal sidebands and the 4×4 multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) algorithm to
eliminate complex cross-polarization interference. In this letter, we propose a polarization interleaving (PI)
approach that significantly reduces bandwidth requirements for optical and electrical components while
achieving a high-flexibility and low-complexity MIMO algorithm. Downstream single sideband PI-SCFDM
transmission is experimentally demonstrated.
OCIS codes: 060.2330, 060.4250.
doi: 10.3788/COL201210.120602.
In the future, next-generation optical access networks
will migrate to a capac ity of 40 Gb/s or even higher per
channel. Passive optical networks (PONs) based on or-
thogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and
single-carrier frequency division multiplexing (SCFDM)
have recently received considerable attention because
these networks present strong resistance to fiber disper-
sion, high spectral efficiency, and extreme flexibility in
terms of multiple service acce ss and dynamic bandwidth
allocation
[1−9]
. SCFDM is a modified form of OFDM.
Given its inherent single-carrier transmission character-
istics, it has a lower peak-to-average ratio than does
OFDM. Exper iments have shown that SCFDM exhibits
better performance
[10]
.
The polarization division multiplexing (PDM) OFDM-
PON scheme with direct detection has recently
been proposed to reduce ba ndwidth requirements for
components
[11−13]
. However, the scheme strictly requires
sp e ctrum overlapping of two orthogonal sideba nds and
the 4×4 multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) channel esti-
mation algorithm to eliminate complex cross -polarization
interference. In this letter, we propose a polarization in-
terleaving (PI) appro ach for SCFDM-PO N based on di-
rect detection. This approach significantly reduces band-
width requirements for optical and electrical components
while achieving a similar 2×2 MIMO algorithm with
PDM coherent optical (CO) OFDM
[14]
. Downstream PI-
SCFDM-PON is experimentally demonstrated to show
the feasibility of the proposed scheme. Compared with
PDM, the PI scheme realizes a high- flexibility and low-
complexity MIMO algorithm at the cost of slightly re-
duced spectral efficiency. The MIMO algorithm can be
easily e xtended to OFDM-PON.
Figure 1 shows the schematic of the proposed PI ap-
proach. At the transmitter, an intensity modulator (IM)
is dr iven by a radio frequency (RF) f
0
/2 with carrier sup-
pression to generate two optical carriers with frequency
spacing f
0
. Then, an interleaver is used to separate the
two carriers. Fo r each SCFDM transmitter, the ba seband
SCFDM s ignals are up-conve rted by digital or analog IQ
modulation. The up-converted signals can be expr essed
as
d
x
=
N
X
i=1
S
1,i
(t) exp(j2πf
u
t), (1)
d
y
=
N
X
i=1
S
2,i
(t) exp(j2πf
u
t), (2)
where S
1,i
and S
2,i
denote the baseband SCFDM signals
of the ith subcarrier modulated in SCFDM transmitters
1 and 2, respectively; f
u
is the RF carrier; N is the
number of subcarriers. The electrical SCFDM signals
are converted to optical double sideband (DSB) signals
by optical IMs. Figures 1(a) and (b) show the schematic
outputs of the two IMs. Then, the signals are combined
Fig. 1. Architecture of PI-SCFDM-PON. PC: polarization
controller.
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