Integrated Circuit Packet Receivers for TDM Passive Optical Networks

摘要

A form of optical communications with increasing commercial importance requires passive sharing of optical fiber among several optoelectronic sources and detectors. One example is the "Passive Optical Network" (PON) illustrated in Figure 1. Here, several terminal units (Optical Network Units - ONU) are linked by passively connected optical fibers to a service provider (Optical Subscriber Unit - OSU) that is in turn the gateway to thernoutside network. Data is transmitted within the network by either or both of time division multiplexing (TDM) and wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). This paper addresses receivers associated specifically with TDM PON systems.