Broadband Optical Access Networks

FOREWORD

Broadband optical access networks are crucial to the future development of the Internet. The continuing evolution of high-capacity, low-latency optical access networks will provide users with real-time high-bandwidth access to the Web essential for such emerging trends as immersive video communications and ubiquitous cloud computing. These ultrahigh-speed access networks must be built under challenging economic and environmental imperatives to be “faster, cheaper, and greener.” This book presents in a clear and illustrative format the technical and scientific concepts that are needed to accomplish the design of new broadband access networks upon which users will surf the wave of the twenty-first-century Internet.

The book is coauthored by Professor Leonid Kazovsky and his graduate students. Professor Kazovsky is a recognized leader and authority in the field and has a long and distinguished track record for making highly timely and significant research contributions within the general area of optical communication systems and optical networks. He has contributed over the last 40 years in the areas of wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) and coherent transmission systems for the core network as well as transmission systems and network architectures and technologies at the metro and access levels. This book builds on Professor Kazovsky’s research conducted at Bellcore (where he worked in the 1980s), at Stanford University (where he has worked since 1990), and at numerous ...