@inproceedings{3fc4c5d6405b42699f3eef228c1da22a,
title = "Flexible space division multiplexed WDM-PON with 16-QAM point-to-point and PolSK modulated multicast overlay services",
abstract = "The capacity of conventional networks has almost reached the Shannon limit despite of implementing the digital signal processing (DSP) techniques [1]. The deployed passive optical networks (PONs) for broadband access services also require high data bandwidth to meet the subscribers requirement. This up-gradation need for high counts of feeder fibers that will cause congestion in the installation ducts and laborious maintenance. To overcome this problem and to increase the capacity, space-division multiplexing (SDM) transmission using Multi-Core-Fibers (MCFs), has been proposed and proven to be feasible [2,3]. In order to realize long-term evolution (LTE) functionalities, i.e. protocol transparency and flexible scalability, the network architecture of SDM-PONs for point-to-point (P2P) and multicast overlay (MCO) video/audio services [4] should be investigated both for performance and compatibility.",
keywords = "Bit error rate, Modulation, Optical networks, Passive optical networks, Signal processing, Space division multiplexing",
author = "Rameez Asif and Muhammad Imran and Feihong Ye and Luca Pot{\`i} and Toshio Morioka",
year = "2015",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781467374750",
series = "Optics InfoBase Conference Papers",
publisher = "Optical Society of America (OSA)",
booktitle = "European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2015",
note = "European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2015 ; Conference date: 21-06-2015 Through 25-06-2015",
}