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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2016
Arris Enterprises Llc, Suwanee, GA (US);
Marcel F. Schemmann, Maria Hoop, NL;
Venkatesh G. Mutalik, Middletown, CT (US);
ARRIS Enterprises LLC, Suwanee, GA (US);
Abstract
In an optical system having multiple cascaded splitter/combiners, a trunk port and/or a drop port is configured for at least one of the splitter/combiner units. Drop ports may be configured with an average gain control, and the trunk ports may be configured to have individual gain control to provide a more precise overall gain and to maintain adequate signal levels. Embodiments apply to evolving RFoG architectures designed to serve a large number of subscribers without suffering from OBI (Optical Beat Interference) by retransmitting an optical signal through cascading splitters/combiners.