Tuneable OTDR measurements for WDM-PON monitoring

Author

Villafani Caballero, D. ; von der Weid, J.P. ; Urban, P.J.

Author_Institution

Centre for Telecommun. Studies, Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

fYear

2013

fDate

4-7 Aug. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a tunable optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) for in-service monitoringof wavelength-division-multiplexed passive optical networks (WDM-PONs). The proposed method is proved for different continuous wavetuneable laser sources (CW TLS), and uses semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) as a switch for the probe signal. We also improve the results using different methods to mitigate the interference effects.

Keywords

interference (signal); monitoring; optical time-domain reflectometry; passive optical networks; reflectometers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; CW TLS; SOA; WDM-PON monitoring; continuous wave tuneable laser sources; in-service monitoring; interference mitigation; optical time-domain reflectometer; semiconductor optical amplifier; tuneable OTDR measurements; wavelength division multiplexed passive optical networks; Monitoring; Optical fibers; Passive optical networks; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Switches; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength-division-multiplexed passive optical network (WDM-PONs); semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); tuneable optical time-domain reflectometer(TOTDR);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave & Optoelectronics Conference (IMOC), 2013 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Rio de Janeiro

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMOC.2013.6646511

Filename

6646511