Demonstration of a 1252-subscriber WDM access PON architecture using a single sequentially pulsed multifrequency laser WDM source

In summary, a new WDM passive optical network (PON) architecture was shown capable of supporting 144 eight-channel WDM access PONs for a total of 1152 subscribers, each having 53-Mbit/s downstream capacity. This scalable PON architecture shares the source cost among a large number of subscribers and allows flexible capacity upgrading or provisioning.