We evaluate the effects of the downstream modulation formats (NRZ, IRZ, and Manchester) on the performance of the RSOA-based bidirectional WDM-PON. The results show that, by using Manchester format, the performances of upstream signals become insensitive to the operating conditions of RSOA.
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Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2007. OFC/NFOEC 2007. Conference on
Date of Conference: 25-29 March 2007