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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2015
Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Hungkei Chow, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Vincent E. Houtsma, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Doutje T. van Veen, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
An optical line terminal transmitter front-end, an optical network terminal receiver front-end and a bit-interleaved passive optical network (BIPON). In one embodiment, the transmitter front-end includes: (1) a bit interleaver configured to group and interleave a plurality of user bit-streams to yield a combined single bit-stream, (2) an encoder coupled to the bit interleaver and configured to encode multiple bits of the single bit-stream into a multi-level code corresponding to a 2-level multi-level signal and (3) a multi-level modulator coupled to the encoder and configured to modulate the multi-level code into the 2-level multi-level signal.