Reliability of the repelling carrier method of implementing optical FDMA

The author conducts a Fokker-Planck analysis of the dynamical aspects of outage protection. He analyzes systems for which the mean time to outage (not meeting a desired signal to interface ratio, ρ) is measured in years (or even decades). He also finds the dependency of mean time of outage on ρ, bit rate, user population size, amount of laser phase noise and the parameter representing the degree to which the laser carrier frequencies wander with passage of time. The author interprets this relationship for the realm of nonhierarchical accommodation on the order of thousands of simultaneous users at 100 mb/s each, using semiconductor lasers. The results suggest that such networks with hundreds of gigabits of throughput are possible provided the unwanted wander can be limited to levels quantified