Optical technologies in extended-reach access networks

Author

Wong, Elaine ; Amaya, Ferney A. ; Monroy, Idelfonso T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

fYear

2009

fDate

30-3 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

The merging of access and metro networks has been proposed as a solution to lower the unit cost of customer bandwidth. This paper reviews some of the recent advances and challenges in extended-reach optical access networks.

Keywords

bandwidth allocation; erbium; metropolitan area networks; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre subscriber loops; semiconductor optical amplifiers; EDFA; SOA; customer bandwidth unit cost; extended-reach access networks; metro networks; optical access networks; optical technologies; passive optical networks; Bandwidth; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber losses; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; EDFA; SOA; and Raman amplification; dynamic bandwidth allocation; extended-reach access network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers & Electro Optics & The Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009. CLEO/PACIFIC RIM '09. Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3829-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3830-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292146

Filename

5292146