Mahmoud Alhalabi,Necmi Ta?p?nar,Fady I. El-Nahal.Bidirectional intensity modulated/direct detection optical OFDM WDM-PON system[J].Optoelectronics Letters,2023,(2):83-87 Bidirectional intensity modulated/direct detection optical OFDM WDM-PON system Author Name Affiliation Mahmoud Alhalabi  Institute of Natural and Applied Science, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey  Necmi Ta?p?nar  Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey  Fady I. El-Nahal  Electrical Engineering Department, Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza, Palestine School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK  Abstract:       In this paper, we have evaluated a bidirectional wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network (WDM-PON) employing intensity modulated/direct detection optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (IM/DD-OFDM). The proposed system employs 100 Gbit/s 16 quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM) downstream and 5 Gbit/s on-off keying (OOK) upstream wavelengths, respectively. The proposed system is considered low-cost as non-coherent IM/DD OFDM technology and a simple reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA) colorless transmitter are employed and no dispersion compensating fiber (DCF) is needed. Based on the bit error rate (BER) results of WDM signals, the proposed WDM-PON system can achieve up to 1.6 Tbit/s (100 Gbit/s/λ × 16 wavelengths) downstream transmission over a 30 km single mode fiber (SMF). Hits: 482 Download times: 0 View Full Text    Download reader