Demonstration of a Long-Reach Hybrid 10 Gb/s PON with Reflective User Terminals
15 February 2011
A fully passive ring+tree PON architecture is demonstrated in a rural 80 km reach scenario and a urban 1:128 split configuration with field-deployed fibers, featuring RSOA-based ONUs with transmission up to 10 Gb/s. ©2011 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (060.2330) Fiber optics communications; (060.4250) Networks; (060.4230) Multiplexing