Optimum Threshold Value and BER Estimation of Remodulated OOK Signal Based on RSOA

Dong-Min SEOL
Eui-Suk JUNG
Sang-Soo LEE

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E94-B    No.7    pp.2127-2129
Publication Date: 2011/07/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E94.B.2127
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Fiber-Optic Transmission for Communications
Keyword: 
WDM-PON,  RSOA,  BER,  optimum decision threshold,  

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Summary: 
A loop-back WDM-PON based on a RSOA has lots of merits, however one-level of the upstream signal has downstream information under OOK modulation. These effects make difficult to define decision threshold and estimate BER. In order to solve this, we propose a mathematical model of remodulated OOK signal and experimentally demonstrate BER performance with the near optimum decision threshold achieved by the proposed model.