@article {401,
	title = {OFDM/WDM PON With Laserless,Colorless 1 Gb/s ONUs Basedon Si-PIC and Slow IC},
	journal = {Journal of Optical Communications and Networking},
	volume = {6},
	number = {3},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {225-237},
	abstract = {We introduce a next-generation long-reach access optical network (35 dB loss budget 2 dB margin) delivering up to 40G/40G per passive 1:256 optical distribution network, supportingsymmetrical1 Gb/s rates perhome user or up to 40 Gb/s for business users (e.g., enterprises, antenna sites). The proposed system is based on a novel spectrally efficient orthogonal frequency division multiplexing/ wavelength division multiplexingOFDM/WDMarchitecture symmetrically using 16-QAM OFDM polarization diversity in both the downstream and upstream in order to serve low-cost energy-efficient symmetric 1 Gb/s optical network units (ONUs), which are self-coherent, laserless, colorless, and tunable-filter-free. Each ONU comprises a standard semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA), a silicon-based photonic integrated circuit (PIC), and mixed-signal electronic integrated circuits (ICs) performing the signal processing at a relatively slow rate as compared with the overall passive optical network (PON) throughput: digital to analog converters (DACs) and analog to digital converters (ADCs) at 417 MS/s for the home user ONUs.},
	url = {https://www.osapublishing.org/jocn/abstract.cfm?uri=jocn-6-3-225},
	author = {A. Agmon and M. Nazarathy and D. M. Marom and S. Ben-Ezra and A. Tolmachev and R. Killey and P. Bayvel and L. Meder and M. H{\"u}bner and W. Meredith and G. Vickers and P. C. Schindler and R. Schmogrow and D. Hillerkuss and W. Freude and C. Koos and J. Leuthold}
}
