Optical Fiber Telecommunications VIB: Chapter 22. PONs: State of the Art and Standardized (Optics and Photonics)

This chapter aims to describe the current state of the PON technology, including both state-of-the-art systems that are currently under research in the laboratory and standardized systems that have been or soon will be described as an industry norm. A short introduction to the PON topic will be given, to set the scene and provide the basic motivation for why PON is so important to fiber access. Then, each of the major technologies will be reviewed, including TDM, Video overlay, WDM, FDM, and Hybrid multiplexing. The focus of each review will be at a system level and will not dive into the details (those will be handled via references to published works). Rather, the intention is to present the wide view of the whole range, so as to compare and contrast them.