Power Budget: An Example

Launched Power: SE-LED with MMF -5 dBm EE-LED with SM (7dBm)

(Superluminescent Fiber Source)

Losses: Encoding-Decoding Process 10 dB

Power Division (Star Coupler, 100 Users) 20 dB

Total: 30 dB

Received Power: - 35 (-23) dBm, Sufficient for APD up to 500 Mbps

Aggregate Throughput= 50 Gbps

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