Summary
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications
2017
Session Number:A3L-A
Session:
Number:A3L-A-3
Analysis for Designing Cost-Effective Optical Access Networks Including Nonlinear Optical Characteristics
Takuya Tsutsumi, Yu Nakayama, Kazuki Maruta, Kazuaki Honda,
pp.201-204
Publication Date:2017/12/4
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
It is important for telecom carriers to improve cost-efficiency of the optical access networks (OANs) because it occupies the greatest part of network infrastructure cost. To further enhance cost-efficiency, it is useful to improve the acceptable link budget of OANs by using optical amplifiers (OAs), which can increase the splitting ratios and extend the transmission distance of the system. This paper presents a formulation for estimating the total transmission distance of long reach (LR)-OANs in order to quantitatively evaluate the effect of extending the transmission distance on various combinations of splitting ratio with considering nonlinear optical characteristics.