selected by full service access networks as a primary solution for next generation PON stage
2 in April 2012. In this letter, we propose and demonstrate a symmetric 40-Gb/s TWDM-PON
with 39-dB power budget. A reflective semiconductor optical amplifier is used in optical
network unit as a pre-amplifier to enhance the sensitivity of downstream signals. For the
upstream direction, a thermally-tuned directly modulated laser with 10-Gb/s modulation rate …