A communication recovering system for a wavelength division multiplexed
passive optical network (WDM PON). The communication recovering system
can recover fault of optical fibers between the central office and the
remote nodes without additional optical fibers by grouping two remote
nodes and employing AWGs having periodic transmission characteristics,
and can also simply and rapidly recover such a fault with minimal optical
loss using 1.times.N structure of the AWGs and On-Off optical switches,
although protection optical fibers are additionally installed therein.
The communication recovering system has advantages in that it can
simplify network structure, be cost-effectively implemented, reduce
optical loss, and rapidly perform protection of optical fiber fault.