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China Communications • April 2017
I. INTRODUCTION
The full-duplex transmission on single-feeder
fiber based on the reflective semiconductor
optical amplifier (RSOA) has become the
main solution for wavelength-division-mul-
tiplexing passive optical networks (WDM-
PON), in which the colorless optical network
unit (ONU) and mitigation of optical beat
interference (OBI) noise caused by Rayleigh
backscattering are critical technologies. One
method uses an extra centralized continuous
wave (CW) light source in optical line termi-
nal (OLT) which is modulated at ONU as the
seed of upstream (US) data, but it will increase
the cost and introduce more OBI noises. In
the other method, the downstream (DS) signal
is used as the seed source after removing the
modulated signal by gain-saturation RSOA.
Then the US data is remodulated at the same
wavelength of DS by RSOA. However the
gain-saturated RSOA is not very suitable in
long reach and high speed PON for its limit
in injecting power, extinction ratio(ER) and
remodulation bandwidth [1-4].
The signal’s transmission performance in
a full-duplex fiber is limited by OBI noise
resulting from Rayleigh backscattering and
reection of discrete components[5][6]. From
ref [7-9], the Rayleigh backscattering is spon-
taneous. The backscattered close-in noise
Abstract: We propose and experimentally
demonstrate a novel colorless full-duplex
passive optical network architecture with
Rayleigh backscattering optical beat interfer-
ence (OBI) noise mitigation by using orthog-
onal codes. A pair of orthogonal codes are
generated and transmitted from optical line
terminal (OLT) to optical network unit (ONU)
with the same wavelength, in which, one for
downstream signal coding, and the other for
the upstream seeding signal. In ONU, the up-
stream signal is remodulated without erasing
the downstream signal. Extra centralized CW
light sources and gain-saturation RSOAs are
not needed. By using orthogonal codes, the
spectral overlap between upstream and down-
stream signal is reduced, which can mitigate
OBI noise significantly. The performance of
transmission and power margin are investigat-
ed through experiments at different data rates,
transmission distances compared with normal
on-off keying (OOK) signals. The remodulat-
ed upstream signals are correlatively received
at OLT with coding gain which is useful in
long-reach transmissions. Due to coding gain
and OBI noise mitigation, total 4~9dB power
margin is achieved for 5Gb/s downstream and
1.25Gb/s upstream with 20km to 70km trans-
mission distances.
Keywords: colorless full-duplex passive opti-
cal; obi; orthogonal codes; spectral overlap
Simple Colorless Long-Reach WDM-PON with
Rayleigh Backscattering Noise Mitigation Employing
Remodulated Orthogonal Coding
Zhisheng Li
*
, Qiang Dou, Lei Wang, Peijun Yang, Chaobing Zhou
School of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha,410073, China
*
The corresponding author, email:lizhsh_123@163.com
Received: Mar. 26, 2016
Revised: Sep. 26, 2016
Editor: Weisheng Hu
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