GigaWaM-Next-generation WDM-PON enabling gigabit per-user data bandwidth

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1444-1454

  Prince, Kamau ^a   Gibbon, Timothy B ^b   Rodes, Roberto ^b   Hviid, Erling ^a   Mikkelsen, Christian Ingemann ^a   Neumeyr, Christian ^c   Ortsiefer, Markus ^c   Rönneberg, Enno ^c   Rosskopf, Jürgen ^c   Öhlén, Peter ^d   De Betou, Einar In ^d   Stoltz, Bjrn ^e   Goobar, Edgard ^e   Olsson, Jörgen ^f   Fletcher, Richard ^g   Abbott, Chris ^g   Rask, Michael ^h   Plappert, Nora ⁱ   Vollrath, Gunther ⁱ   Monroy, I Tafur ^b  

^a Ignis Photonyx A/S   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c VERTILAS GMBH   (Germany)

^d ACREO AB   (Sweden)

^e Syntune AB   (Sweden)

^f Nor Tek Teknologisenter   (Norway)

^g PERA   (United Kingdom)

^h Svedice AB   (Sweden)

ⁱ Aifotec GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Optical access; wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) networks

Indexed keywords

ARRAY WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; BACKHAUL NETWORKS; BROADBAND INTERNET; DATA BANDWIDTH; DATA RATES; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; OPTICAL ACCESS; TRIPLE-PLAY; TUNABLE TRANSCEIVERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING NETWORKS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK; WDM-PON;

DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84859762059     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2012.2185039     Document Type: Article

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