A WAVELENGTH-DIVISION MULTIPLEXED PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK FOR EMBODYING WAVELENGTH-INDEPENDENT OPERATION OF WAVELENGTH-LOCKED FABRY-PEROT LASER DIODES BY INJECTING A LOW NOISE BROADBAND LIGHT SOURCE

摘要

The present invention relates to a wavelength-division multiplexed passive optical network (WDM-PON) which embodies wavelength-independence of wavelength-locked Fabry Perot- Laser Diode (F-P LD). A WDM-PON of the present invention comprises an optical fiber being used for optical transmission to and from a broadband light source (BLS) with a low noise characteristic; first arrayed waveguide Gratings (AWG) for filtering light transmitted from the BLS which is oscillated in a plural mode into a group of n numbers wherein the first AWG have a bandwidth broader than a bandwidth of one mode of the BLS; n F-P LDs outputting wavelength-locked light by light being injected through the first AWG; a circulator bypassing and outputting wavelength-division multiplexed signals which are inputted through the first AWG and the optical fiber; and second AWG de-multiplexing the WDM signals into a group of n numbers wherein the second AWG have a bandwidth broader than the bandwidth of the BLS to be injected, wherein the number n is either the number of output ports of the first or second AWG or the number of channels of the WDM signals.