SUPER PON-a fiber to the home cable network for CATV and POTS/ISDN/VOD as economical as a coaxial cable network

A complete super PON fiber to the home cable network as economical as the classic coaxial cable network, designed for application in the local loop is presented. The concept uses high power lasers, remote pumped erbium doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) to reduce cost by high splitting ratio, economical receivers for the downstream direction and economical CD player lasers for the upstream direction. Several novel technical solutions for this application (a new method to avoid stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS), remote pumping of the EDFA and a compensating technique to adapt the CD laser to the normal fiber) are presented.