Experimental comparison of fiber optic parametric, Raman and erbium amplifiers for burst traffic for extended reach PONs

Chandra B. Gaur, Filipe Ferreira, Vladimir Gordienko, Vitor Ribeiro, Áron D. Szabó, Nick J. Doran

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Abstract

We experimentally compare the performance of a polarization-independent fiber optic parametric amplifier (FOPA), a discrete Raman amplifier and a commercial erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) for burst traffic amplification in extended reach passive optical networks (PON). We demonstrate that EDFA and Raman amplifiers suffer from severe transient effects, causing penalty on receiver sensitivity >5 dB for traffic bursts of 10 Gbps on-off keying signal shorter than 10 µs. On the other hand, we demonstrate that FOPA does not introduce a penalty on receiver sensitivity when amplifying signal bursts as short as 5 µs as compared to a non-burst signal. Therefore, FOPA used as a drop-in replacement for an EDFA or Raman amplifier allows us to improve receiver sensitivity by >3 dB for short signal bursts. We conclude that FOPA allows substantially increased power budget for an extended reach PON transmitting variable duration bursts. In addition, we identify the maximum burst duration tolerated by each examined amplifier.
Original languageEnglish
Article number19362
Pages (from-to)19362-19373
Number of pages12
JournalOptics Express
Volume28
Issue number13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Jun 2020

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Published by The Optical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.
Funding: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (FPA-ROCS (EP/R024057/1), UPON (EP/M005283/1)); H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (OPERNET and POLSAR (713694))

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