This paper describes two- and three-stage wavelength routed optical access
networks, which offer wavelength tolerance by using coarse passband-flatten
ed arrayed waveguide grating routers. An N-dimensional addressing strategy
enables 6912 customers to be bidirectionally accessed with multi-Gb/s data
using only 24 wavelengths and 1.6 nm spacing, These architectures are desig
ned to map onto standard access network topologies, allowing elegant upgrad
ability from legacy passive optical network (PON) infrastructures at low co
st.