Broadband Optical Access Networks

Broadband optical access network is an ideal solution to alleviate the first/last mile bottleneck of current Internet infrastructures. Richly illustrated throughout to help clarify important topics, Broadband Optical Access Networks covers the architectures, protocols enabling technologies of broadband optical access networks, and all current and future competing technologies for access networks. This comprehensive work presents the evolution of optical access networks, including reach extension, bandwidth enhancement, and discusses the convergence of optical and wireless technologies for broadband access, making it an invaluable reference for researchers, electrical engineers, and graduate students.

Leonid G. Kazovsky, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA). He is the founder and director of the Photonic and Networking Research Laboratory and is recognized for his outstanding research contributions to coherent optical communications and optical access networks.

Ning Cheng, PhD, is a senior engineer at a major technology company as well as the author of more than sixty technical papers in electrical engineering. He served as a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University.

Wei-Tao Shaw, PhD, is currently a member of the technical staff at Infinera Inc. During his time at Stanford University, he worked in the Photonics and Networking Research Lab where he focused on optical access networks and subsystems, and hybrid optical and wireless access networks.

David Gutierrez, PhD, currently advises the Colombian Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications. While at Stanford University, his research focused on next-generation access networks. His work has been published in many scientific journals and conference proceedings.

Shing-Wa Wong, PhD, graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He has published more than twenty-five IEEE journal and conference publications and obtained three patents in next-generation broadband networks.