Final system results from the EU FP7 project FABULOUS

In the framework of the EU-funded research project “FABULOUS” we experimentally demonstrate an innovative FDMA-PON architecture whose upstream transmission is based on a reflective Mach-Zehnder modulator, reaching an overall upstream capacity of 32 Gbps per wavelength over 31 dB ODN loss in several previously published experiments targeting 1 Gbps per user and using 16-QAM as a modulation format. In this paper, we focus on the experimental demonstration of the flexibility of our system to a variety of different working conditions, targeting higher bit-rates per user (up to 10 Gbps) and different modulation formats.