Passive optical network architecture based on waveguide grating routing

  • Authors:
  • D. Banerjee;J. Frank;B. Mukherjee

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Davis, CA;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We explore an optical network architecture which employs dense wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technology and passive waveguide grating routers (WGRs) to establish a virtual topology based on lightpath communication. We examine the motivation and the technical challenges involved in this approach, propose and examine the characteristics of a network design algorithm, and provide some illustrative performance results