A systematic evaluation on burst-mode data transmission in passive optical access network

In an optical subscriber loop that utilizes TDMA (time division multiple access) technology with a single mode fiber, the data from subscribers are in burst-mode. While transmitting the burst-mode data there are penalties in the optical link budget: timing jitter in the recovered data stream and the loss of the header in the subscribers' data stream cause poor transmission performance. In this paper, the technical issues for burst-mode data transmission in the access passive optical network (PON) are discussed, and through systematic evaluation results, it is experimentally demonstrated that transmission is effective in an access PON with a 17 dB budget and good BER performance.