Feasibility of a 1 Gbit/s/ 565 Mbit/s bidirectional single-mode-fibre subscriber line for B-ISDN using 1279 nm/ 1315 nm wavelength division multiplexing

Abstract

A laboratory system, transmitting 1 Gbit/s signals to a subscriber station and 565 Mbit/s signals back to a head station via one 20 km-long single-mode fibre, has been realised. Wavelength division multiplexing via two 3 dB fibre couplers of selectivity ̃0.04 dB/nm has been used. The experiment demonstrates that bidirectional single-mode-fibre transmission is applicable to a future B-ISDN subscriber network.