ABSTRACT
With the emerging applications and needs of ever-increasing bandwidth, it is anticipated that the next-generation broadband passive optical network with much higher bandwidth is a natural path forward to satisfy these demands. For network operators, it is therefore interesting and protable to develop this scenario of valuable access networks. Broadband passive optical networks utilize the optical transmission medium, and for increasing transmission rates of broadband applications and services, it is necessary to characterize and investigate some specic features of new optical signal processing techniques at the signal transmission. Furthermore, there also exist various architectures and optical infrastructures for possible developing of broadband passive optical networks. Also in this case, they must be specied with emphasis on their characteristics and possible implementations in real access networks.
