Abstract
Thousands of channels can be transmitted through a single mode fiber using different multiplexing techniques. These multichannel optical systems provide saving in cost of installing and upgrading of lightwave networks. Also they can easily be
implemented on existing optical fiber networks. The use of active or intelligent node rather a passive node can further
increase the capacity of multi-channel optical networks. In this paper, multi-channel optical add/drop networks are
investigated with respect to passive and active nodes. Results show the use of active node in an optical network increases
the system capacity and improves the performance of a system.
Keywords
Optical networks, Add/drop optical networks, Multi-channel optical network, Active node optical networks.
Citation
ABID KARIM, ARIF ALI REHMAN, ALEEM KHALID ALVI, Design and analysis of active node based multi-channel optical add/drop networks, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 2, 7, July 2008, pp.415-417 (2008).
Submitted at: Nov. 23, 2007
Accepted at: July 8, 2008