Title :
Recent Developments in WDM-PON Technology
Author :
Langer, Klaus-Dieter ; Vathke, Joachim ; Habel, Kai ; Arellano, Cristina
Author_Institution :
Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommun., Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., Berlin
Abstract :
Considerable research is being conducted to exploit the potential of novel WDM-PONs exhibiting individual, data and protocol agnostic virtual point-to-point (p2p) links for each ONU. The research focuses on the deployment of uniform building blocks throughout the entire access network and on upgrading the channel data rate efficiently towards 10 Gb/s. This contribution gives an overview of basic principles of WDM-PONs, discusses merits and drawbacks of related approaches and highlights important requirements for key components such as injection-locked Fabry-Perot lasers, (R)SOAs, SLEDs and athermal AWGs
Keywords :
arrayed waveguide gratings; light emitting diodes; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; protocols; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; ONU; SLED; SOA; WDM-PON technology; access network; athermal AWG; channel data rate; injection-locked Fabry-Perot lasers; protocol agnostic virtual point-to-point; Arrayed waveguide gratings; EPON; Ethernet networks; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; Research and development; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing; WDM passive optical network; colourless optical network unit; optical line termination; upstream light generation;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks, 2006 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nottingham
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0235-2
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0236-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2006.248293
