Review and comparative assessment of FDMA-PON vs. TDMA-PON for next-generation optical access networks

Abstract

We present in this paper a comparative assessment of Time Division Multiple Access Passive Optical Networks (TDMA-PON) and Frequency-Division Multiple Access Passive Optical Networks (FDMA-PON). We try to point out the pros and cons of the two different approaches in the context of very high capacity next-generation PON mainly in terms of physical layer transmission performances, but also introducing some comparison in terms of complexity, cost and power consumption.

Design of long‐reach symmetric 1.6 Tbps bidirectional NG‐PON2 using 2D spectral/spatial SWZCC code

“…The resulting decoded signal is detected in ONU receiver section. The receiver section of CO in DN transmission consists of PIN photodiode, low pass filter (LPF), 3R regenerator and bit error rate analyzer (BER) 1,3,12 …”