{"title":"Impact of linewidth on system impairment caused by backreflection in WDM PONs","authors":"Shiyu Gao, Hanwu Hu, A. Atieh, H. Anis","doi":"10.1109/OFC.2008.4528134","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper experimentally investigates the impact of linewidth on system impairment in WDM-PONs for various wavelength-independent ONU configurations. We show that the power penalty decreases and the optimal ONU gain changes as the linewidth increases.","PeriodicalId":298721,"journal":{"name":"OFC/NFOEC 2008 - 2008 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"OFC/NFOEC 2008 - 2008 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OFC.2008.4528134","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper experimentally investigates the impact of linewidth on system impairment in WDM-PONs for various wavelength-independent ONU configurations. We show that the power penalty decreases and the optimal ONU gain changes as the linewidth increases.