Recently, there has been growing interest in developing optical fiber networks to support the
increasing bandwidth demands of multimedia applications, such as video conferencing and …

An optical add/drop multiplexer that enables full access to 16 individual wavelength
channels has been fabricated on the planar lightwave circuit (PLC). The device consists of …

We analyze the transmission of many wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) channels
through a cascade of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA) in both long-distance links and …

This paper demonstrates the use of computer simulation for topological design and
performance engineering of transparent wavelength-division multiplexing metropolitan-area …

An optical frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) based self-healing unidirectional ring
network is designed and its performance is verified. It employs arrayed waveguide grating …

Optical networks based on passive-star couplers and employing WDM have been proposed
for deployment in local and metropolitan areas. These networks suffer from splitting …

A passive gain-equalization technique of erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) using a
samarium-doped fiber to obtain wide-band flattened gain operation is reported. In the …

A dynamically selective wavelength add/drop multiplexer (WADM) and a multiwavelength
cross-connect (M-XC) configuration for dense wavelength division multiplexed networks are …

How to connect arrayed-waveguide-grating (AWG) multiplexers in cascade is discussed with
the goal of equalizing the loss imbalance among frequency-division-multiplexed (FDM) …

We compare the homodyne crosstalk characteristics of a number of different optical add-
drop multiplexer (OADM) structures, in the context of wavelength-division multiplexed …