• DocumentCode
    1620838
  • Title

    Selective OTDR measurements at the central office of individual fiber links in a PON

  • Author

    Hilbk, U. ; Burmeister, M. ; Hoen, B. ; Hermes, Th ; Saniter, J. ; Westphal, F.-J.

  • Author_Institution
    Heinrich-Hertz-Inst. fur Nachrichtentech. Berlin GmbH, Germany
  • fYear
    1997
  • Firstpage
    54
  • Abstract
    Our proposal adds an arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) operated at 1.5 μm to the star coupler of a passive optical network (PON) in the remote node (RN) and separates the original PON and the overlay via 1.3/1.5 μm splitters, which guarantees the maintenance function
  • Keywords
    diffraction gratings; optical fibre networks; optical fibre testing; optical time-domain reflectometry; optical waveguides; 1.3 mum; 1.5 mum; arrayed waveguide grating; central office; fiber links; maintenance function; optical beam splitters; optical fibre testing; optical time domain reflectometry; passive optical network; selective OTDR measurements; star coupler; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Central office; Fiber lasers; Laser tuning; Optical network units; Optical pulses; Passive optical networks; Proposals; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication. OFC 97., Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Dallas, TX
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-480-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.1997.719686
  • Filename
    719686