Collective reception of orthogonal band multiplexed data streams for OFDM-PON upstream transmissions

We propose and demonstrate a novel OFDM-PON upstream transmission architecture with traffic aggregation by orthogonal band multiplexing. The aggregated data streams that propagate in different fiber lengths from ONUs are collectively received and demodulated using one receiver, when the OFDM signals are in a synchronous state. In simulation, four optical network units (ONUs) transmit upstream data at four different frequency bands, and use orthogonal band multiplexing with a proper configuration. The orthogonal band multiplexed 10-Gb/s OFDM signal is collectively received to validate the feasibility of the architecture. We also conduct a proof-of-concept experiment to verify the orthogonal band multiplexing and collective reception. We also verify that the tolerance to the time mismatch of the orthogonal band multiplexing is twice of the CP length.