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Directly modulated long-reach (LR) passive optical networks (PONs) are experimentally assessed for the distribution of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) ultra wideband (UWB) bands along sparse geographical areas. Particularly, we propose and demonstrate useful system design guidelines enabling the distribution of UWB signals along directly modulated LR-PONs with maximum reach exceeding 100 km. Adequate selection of the UWB signal applied to the directly modulated laser (DML) and fixed in-line optical dispersion compensation are shown as effective solutions to reach between 75 km and 130 km of standard single-mode fibre. The analysis performed for a wavelength division multiplexing system comprising three optical channels showed also that, for optical channel spacing as narrow as 0.2 nm, the proposed system suffers from negligible linear inter-channel crosstalk. These results demonstrate that directly modulated LR-PONs can be employed as a reliable solution for provisioning of UWB signals to users’ premises located in sparse take-up geographies.
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This work was supported by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia from Portugal under the TURBO-PTDC/EEA-TEL/104358/2008 project.
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Alves, T.M.F., Cartaxo, A.V.T. (2014). Long-Reach PONs Employing Directly Modulated Lasers for Provisioning of OFDM-UWB Radio Signals in Sparse Geographical Areas. In: Obaidat, M., Filipe, J. (eds) E-Business and Telecommunications. ICETE 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 456. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44788-8_12
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