Research Overview:

The Photonics and Networking Research Laboratory (PNRL) at Stanford University investigates a broad range of research in photonics and optical networks, under the guidance of Professor Leonid Kazovsky.  Our current research focuses on passive optical network designs, optical and wireless access convergence, metro-access interface, packet-switched photonics, and dynamic circuit switched transport for the Internet core.  More information about any of our current projects and many of our past projects can be found at the links below.

Current Projects:

GROW-NET         NSF Grid Reconfigurable Optical and Wireless Network

MARIN                 NSF Metro and Access Rings Integrated Network

NG-PON                Huawei Multi-Wavelength and Multi-Bitrate Passive Optical Network

OCS                       Simple Unified Control for Packet and Circuit Networks

Past Projects:

OBM                     CIS & ITRI Hight Speed Burst Mode Transceiver for Optical Access Networks

SureOn                  ANDevice Security and Protection in Optical Access Networks

MONA                  Fujitsu Metro-Access Network

DWA-PON            KDDI Dynamic Wavelength Allocation PON Network

H-PON                  Motorola and Stanford Networking and Research Center Hybrid Wavelength Division/Time Division Network

SUCCESS-LCO    KDDI Hybrid Time Division/Wavelength Division Network Through Line Codes

OPA                       NSF Optical Parametric Amplifiers

HORNET              Sprint and DARPA Efficient Scalable Metropolitan Area Network

LEARN                 Sprint Next Generation Metropolitan Access Network

STARNET            Broadband Backbone Optical Wavelength-Division Multiplexing LAN