Flávio André NOGUEIRA SAMPAIO Thesis defense

Over the following years, the required bit rates for access networks are immense due to the massive increase of connected devices and bandwidth-hungry applications. Passive Optical Networks (PON) are the conventional choice for access works because they ally low cost and have high transmission rate capacity. As industry researchers from ITU-T and IEEE target increasing the single channel capacity from 10 Gbit/s to 25Gbit/s, 50Gbit/s, and 100 Gbit/s, this thesis focuses on digital compensation techniques for the 50G-PON since the optical channel is critically impaired by chromatic dispersion, chirp, bandwidth limitation, and attenuation.