Analysis of Four-Wave-Mixing Effects in Up Stream Transmission Using SOA as Transmitter

We demonstrate four-wave-mixing (FWM) based wavelength modulation at 1.55 μm using SOA. For a pump peak power of -10 dBm, a numerical simulation is used to predict the performance of each ONU Transmitter for different experimental conditions and to address the potential of each SOA in wavelength modulation effects analysing four-wave-mixing. It is shown that wavelength conversion, covering the entire C-band, can be achieved with different performance for SMF-28 optical fiber at reasonable optical pump power and for different fiber lengths.