Experimental demonstration of NG-PONs power budget enhancement techniques

This paper experimentally investigates power budget extension configurations for WDM NG-PONs. Differential Phase Shift Keying (DPSK), and Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (DQPSK) are considered. The budget enhancement techniques are based on Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA). The paper thoroughly studies power budget enhancement for the two modulation formats and shows that the proposed configurations comply with current standards such as XG-PON1.