Demonstration of Injected Locked Fabry-Perot Laser Diodes and Reflected Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers as Colorless Transmitters for WDM-PONs

In this paper, performance evaluation of different transmitters enabling colorless operation for WDM-PONs applications is carried out. Injected Locked Fabry Perot Laser Diode (IL-FPLD) and Reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (RSOA) in external seeding and wavelength reuse scheme are modeled in VPITransmissionMaker (R) simulation platform. Upstream transmissions are performed at 1.25 Gb/s with distances up to 40 km, achieving a BER of similar to 1x10(-10), with an aggregate capacity of 40 Gb/s by using IL-FPLD. For the RSOA with external seeding, upstream transmission rates of 1.25 Gb/s and downstream transmission of 5 Gb/s are achieved in 43 km of fiber link achieving a BER of similar to 1x10(-10). For a RSOA in wavelength reuse scheme, symmetric rates of 1.25 Gb/s per lambda for transmission distances up to 20 km, are achieved with a BER of similar to 1x10(-12).