DC-coupled burst-mode receiver with high sensitivity, wide dynamic range and short settling time for symmetric 10G-GPONs

Jasmien Put; Xin Yin; Xing-Zhi Qiu; Jan Gillis; Jochen Verbrugghe; Johan Bauwelinck; Jan Vandewege; Fabrice Blache; Delphine Lanteri; Mohand Achouche; Heinz-Georg Krimmel; Dora van Veen; Peter Vetter

doi:10.1364/OE.19.00B594

DC-coupled burst-mode receiver with high sensitivity, wide dynamic range and short settling time for symmetric 10G-GPONs

Opt Express. 2011 Dec 12;19(26):B594-603. doi: 10.1364/OE.19.00B594.

Authors

Jasmien Put¹, Xin Yin, Xing-Zhi Qiu, Jan Gillis, Jochen Verbrugghe, Johan Bauwelinck, Jan Vandewege, Fabrice Blache, Delphine Lanteri, Mohand Achouche, Heinz-Georg Krimmel, Dora van Veen, Peter Vetter

Affiliation

¹ Ghent University, INTEC/IMEC, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. jasmien.put@intec.ugent.be

PMID: 22274076
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.00B594

Abstract

This paper presents a high performance DC-coupled 10 Gbit/s APD-based optical burst-mode receiver (BM-RX) for symmetric 10G-GPONs. The BM-RX can handle upstream bursts with a loud/soft range wider than 24.0 dB, and the measured sensitivity is -30.0 dBm at BER = 10(-3) after a start of burst settling time no longer than 51 ns. This paper also investigates, for the first time, the inter-burst guard time required for a 10 Gbit/s BM-RX with auto-reset generation, while the PON operates upstream at a high raw BER and is using FEC.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't