… Kogelink, for his kindness in providing his gracious remarks in “The WDM Revolution” for
our four books on WDM Technologies. Last but not least, many thanks also go to our family …

… been formed, and optical WDM technology is being deployed in … optical-networking
approaches, briefly report on the WDM … research and development trends on WDM optical …

… era in optical communications, we review initial research in SDM technologies and address
… and energy-efficient technologies and architectures for backbone optical networks,[ in Proc. …

… Part I contains Biswanath Mukherjee’s paper on a survey of the state-of-the-art in WDM
technology. Part II deals with the physical components that make WDM fiber-optic networks …

… WDM and its enabling technologies. Part II is devoted to WDM local, access, and metro optical
network … of problems in wavelength-routed WDM optical networks for wide-area coverage. …

… and still immature technology. This paper reviews some mayor technological developments
in architectures, devices and systems involved in WDM optical network evolution and …

… technologies that make WDM … using WDM in optical networking has been recognized.
Consequently, an extensive standardization effort is underway to merge WDM into optical networks…

… Optical networks using WDM technology have become the most promising network infrastructure
… Distinguished from other books in optical networks, this book focuses primarily on the …

… The transmission capacity of a link in today’s optical networks has increased significantly
due to wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) technology. The network performance is now …

… ; (3) optical network resource allocation and control. In … optical system to C+L system, there
are still quite a few significant technical challenges especially for large-scale optical network…