title: Analysis of the carrier-suppressed single-sideband modulators used to mitigate Rayleigh backscattering in carrier-distributed PON.
abstract: By using the carrier-suppressed single-sideband (CS-SSB) modulation, the Rayleigh backscattering (RB) experienced by the uplink signal can be effectively mitigated due to the reduction of the spectral overlap between the uplink signal and the distributed optical carrier. In this work, we first introduce the theoretical analysis of the CS-SSB generation using the dual-drive MZM (DD-MZM)-based and a dual-parallel MZM (DP-MZM)-based optical networking units (ONUs). Due to the different modulation mechanisms of the two CS-SSB modulations, the frequency components of the generated CS-SSB signals are also different. The transmission performance and the dispersion tolerance of the uplink signals generated by the two CS-SSB modulators are also analyzed and discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Photonics and Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300-10, Taiwan. depew@itri.org.tw
authors.forename: C W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Chow
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Yeh
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chi