Optical Beat Interference in Burst Mode Upstream Links of the Higher Speed-PON: Situation, Penalties and Solution

Jeremy Potet (1, 2) , Gaël Simon (1) , Fabienne Saliou (1) , Mathilde Gay (2) , Laurent Bramerie (2) , Philippe Chanclou (1) , Monique Thual (2)

1 Orange Labs [Lannion]
2 FOTON - Institut des Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON

We perform a 25Gb/s NRZ-OOK burst mode transmission. A beating between two optical sources is detected on a DC-30GHz photodiode and a penalty due to OBI on the BER as high as 2.8dB is experimentally observed. Solutions to reduce the impact of OBI are proposed.

Domaines: Optique / photonique

Jeremy Potet, Gaël Simon, Fabienne Saliou, Mathilde Gay, Laurent Bramerie, et al.. Optical Beat Interference in Burst Mode Upstream Links of the Higher Speed-PON: Situation, Penalties and Solution. 47th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2021), Sep 2021, Bordeaux, France. ⟨10.1109/ECOC52684.2021.9606153⟩. ⟨hal-03546157⟩