Abstract

The number of stations that can be supported in a passive bus network without amplifiers is only a few tens, even if the tap coefficients are optimized.¹ In an earlier paper,² we showed that using optical amplifiers in a single-channel bus increases the number of stations that can be supported by two orders of magnitude to a few hundreds. Here we determine the number of stations that can be supported in a multiple-channel wavelength-division-multiplexed bus using amplifiers when all stations on the bus transmit simultaneously.

© 1991 Optical Society of America