| Abstract: | We propose and demonstrate an efficient power‐saving optical network unit (ONU) based on upstream traffic monitoring for 10‐Gb/s wavelength division multiplexed passive optical networks (WDM‐PONs). The power‐saving mode controller uses a μ‐processor and traffic monitoring modules followed by the proposed power‐saving processes to operate the sleep mode ONU. The power consumption of the ONU is effectively reduced from 19.3 W to 6.4 W when no traffic from the users is detected. In addition, we design a power‐saving mechanism based on a cyclic sleep mode operation to allow a connectivity check between the optical line terminal and ONU. Our calculation results show that the WDM‐PON ONU reduces the power consumption by around 60% using the proposed mechanism. |
