Abstract

Recently, requirements have been increasing for large throughput networks for use in asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) cell transfer, for example, subscriber transfer network. In order to meet the requirements, optical networks adopting wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) technologies, have been studied. The authors have recently proposed a WDM ring optical fiber network. In this paper, a novel control scheme for fast laser diode (LD) wavelength switching with rapid stabilizing is proposed, which is the key technology for the proposed network. Obtained characteristics are suited for 600Mb/s cell speed WDM ring network. The proposed control scheme can be applied to over 10Gb/s cell speed networks.

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