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    • 1.25-3.125 Gb/s per user PON with RSOA as phase modulator for statistical wavelength ONU 

      Chu, Guangyong; Polo Querol, Víctor; Lerín de la Santísima Trinidad, Adolfo; Tabares Giraldo, Jeison; Cano Valadéz, Iván Nicolás; Prat Gomà, Josep Joan (2015-12-15)
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      We report a new scheme to support, cost efficiently, ultra-dense wavelength division multiplexing (UDWDM) for optical access networks. As validating experiment, we apply phase modulation of a reflective semiconductor optical ...
    • 1.25–2.5 Gb/s simple nyquist transmitters for coherent UDWDM-PON with enhanced spectral efficiency 

      Velásquez Micolta, Juan Camilo; Tabares Giraldo, Jeison; Cano Valadez, Iván Nicolás; Prat Gomà, Josep Joan (2018-04-19)
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      We present a coherent ultra-dense wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network (UDWDM-PON) with enhanced spectral efficiency. The benefit of using Gaussian or Nyquist pulse-shaping filters at the transmitter ...
    • 7.5 Gb/s direct DFB phase modulation with 8-DPSK for 6.25 GHz spaced coherent UDWDM-PONs 

      Cano Valadez, Iván Nicolás; Velásquez Micolta, Juan Camilo; Prat Gomà, Josep Joan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
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      We demonstrate an 8-DPSK directly phase-modulated DFB with intradyne detection in a 50 km, 6.25 GHz channel spaced UDWDM-PON. A bit rate of 7.5 Gb/s is achieved with Rx sensitivity of -31 dBm at BER=10-3.
    • A margin adaptive scheduling algorithm for FBMC/OQAM systems 

      Caus López, Marius; Pérez Neira, Ana Isabel; Moretti, Marco; Kliks, Adrian (2014)
      Conference report
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      This paper addresses the margin adaptive problem for the filter bank multicarrier (FBMC) modulation based on the offset QAM (OQAM), referred to as FBMC/OQAM. The analysis conducted in this paper reveals that due to the ...
    • A study of flexible bandwidth allocation in statistical OFDM-based PON 

      Cano Valadéz, Iván Nicolás; Escayola Elias, Francisco Javier; Peralta Gallardo, Ángel; Polo Querol, Víctor; Santos Blanco, M. Concepción; Prat Gomà, Josep Joan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)
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      The upstream of an OFDM-PON with direct modulated lasers tuned in temperature was experimentally tested. Results demonstrate flexible bandwidth allocation, and show it constitutes an efficient strategy to cope with the ...
    • Absorptive frequency selective limiter for multiplexers 

      Hueltes Escobar, Alberto (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012-07-05)
      Master thesis
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      RF & Microwave Receivers are used to detect low level signals. Therefore require high gain and low noise sensitive circuits at the input. These circuits (most of all LNA) are often susceptible to damage if exposed to ...
    • Adapting fractional frequency reuse to realistic OFDMA cellular networks 

      González González, David; García Lozano, Mario; Ruiz Boqué, Sílvia; Lema, Maria A.; Lee, Dong Seop (2013)
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      Effective intercell interference (ICI) mitigation has been identified as a key challenge for emerging OFDMA cellular technologies such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). In order to address this issue, mobile operators have ...
    • Advanced techniques for optical access networks based on OFDM 

      Arcas Serrate, Blanca (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012-10-05)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      This Master Thesis aims to review and study the different alternatives for application of OFDM technologies to optical fibre networks and assess their potential as the basis of the next generation PON. New proposals based ...
    • Amping up, saving power 

      López Bueno, David; Wang, Teng; Gilabert Pinal, Pere Lluís; Montoro López, Gabriel (2016-01-01)
      Article
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      Fourth-generation (4G) communication systems based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and the proposed backwards compatible fifth-generation (5G) variants, like filter-bank multicarrier (FBMC), are based ...
    • An improved dynamic wavelength assignment in statistical UDWDM-PONs 

      Sales Zaragozá, Vicente; Segarra Mullerat, Josep; Prat Gomà, Josep Joan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
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      Dynamic wavelength assignment (DWA) is investigated for managing ultra-dense wavelength division multiplexing-passive optical networks (UDWDM-PONs). The optical network units (ONUs) own lasers under limited thermal tunability ...
    • Automatic lambda-control with offset compensation in DFB intradyne receiver for udWDM-PON 

      Tabares Giraldo, Jeison; Polo Querol, Víctor; Cano Valadéz, Iván Nicolás; Pratdesaba Fargas, Josep (2015-02-15)
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      Open Access
      A complete automatic wavelength control for digital coherent receivers, which performs local laser tuning and feedforward frequency offset compensation, is presented. We demonstrate the feasibility of the concept in a ...
    • BER improvement using optical gain clamped amplifier for burst transmission and critical cases studies 

      Zannin, Marcelo; Ennser, Karin; Taccheo, Stefano; Careglio, Davide; Solé Pareta, Josep; Aracil Rico, Javier (IEEE Press and Wiley, 2009-03-22)
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      This paper demonstrates significant BER improvement in burst traffic transmission using optical-gain clamped amplifiers. Critical chaotic cases are identified for peculiar burst sequences and their impact in transmission ...
    • Compensation of third-order dispersion in a 100Gb/s single channel system with in-line fibre Bragg gratings 

      Gualda Manzano, Emilio José; Gómez Pavón, Luz del Carmen; Torres, Juan P. (2005-06-15)
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      This paper presents a scheme to enhance the performance of an ultrahigh capacity(100 Gb/s) long haul transmission system that makes use of chirped fibre Bragggratings (FBG) for dispersion slope compensation. It is shown ...
    • Cost-effective ROADM architecture for C/DWDM metro-access networks convergence 

      Sarmiento Hernández, Samael; Spadaro, Salvatore; Lázaro Villa, José Antonio (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
      Conference lecture
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      The Internet data traffic constant growth caused by the popularization of cloud services, mobile and social networks is requiring changes at the underlying networks in order to enable scalability whereas supporting a highly ...
    • Design of flexible udWDM metro-access network devices assisted by high resolution complex spectroscopy 

      Altabas, Jose Antonio; Izquierdo, David; Pascual, Álvaro; Sarmiento Hernández, Samael; Lázaro Villa, José Antonio; Garces, Ignacio; Villafranca, A. (2016)
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      The new cloud services, the Internet of Things (IoT) and the convergence of mobile and optical networks in the 5G scenario are pushing up the traffic demand over the metro-access networks. Flexible ultra-dense Wavelength ...
    • Design of green optical networks with signal quality guarantee 

      Cavdar, Cicek; Ruiz Ramírez, Marc; Monti, Paolo; Velasco Esteban, Luis Domingo; Wosinska, Lena (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012)
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      Energy consumption of communication networks is growing very fast due to the rapidly increasing traffic demand. Consequently, design of green communication networks gained a lot of attention. In this paper we focus on ...
    • Differential link-loss compensation through dynamic bandwidth assignment in statistical OFDMA-PON 

      Cano Valadéz, Iván Nicolás; Peralta Gallardo, Ángel; Polo Querol, Víctor; Escayola Elias, Francisco Javier; Santos Blanco, M. Concepción; Prat Gomà, Josep Joan (2013)
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      Flexible bandwidth allocation strategies in a statistical OFDM-PON are experimentally shown to compensate for differential link loss allowing for proper detection of ONUs separated up to 55km (11.4dB)
    • Digital design and experimental validation of high-performance real-time OFDM systems 

      Font Bach, Josep Oriol (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013-07-26)
      Doctoral thesis
      Open Access
      The goal of this Ph.D. dissertation is to address a number of challenges encountered in the digital baseband design of modern and future wireless communication systems. The fast and continuous evolution of wireless ...
    • Direct phase modulation for UDWDM ONU with beat signals 

      Velásquez Micolta, Juan Camilo; Cano Valadez, Iván Nicolás; Tabares Giraldo, Jeison; Polo Querol, Víctor; Prat Gomà, Josep Joan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
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      An ONU transmitter for UDWDM PONs based on direct phase modulated distributed feedback lasers (DFB) through digital beat signals is proposed and experimentally tested. The amplitude and duty cycle of the modulating signal ...
    • Diseño de topologías lógicas sobre redes ópticas WDM sin convertidores de longitud de onda 

      Roig Jiménez, Óscar (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2005-01)
      Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
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      El diseño de una topología lógica consiste en definir enlaces lógicos entre los nodos de una red física y asignar las longitudes de onda disponibles, las rutas físicas y el volumen de tráfico de cada canal. DTL es un ...