Fiber Identification Below an Optical Splitter With a Test Light Injection Tool

Author

Hirota, Hidenobu ; Kawano, Tomohiro ; Shinpo, Makoto ; Kazutaka, Noto ; Honda, Nazuki ; Kiyokura, Takanori ; Manabe, Tetsuya

Author_Institution

Access Network Service Syst. Labs., NTT Corp., Tsukuba, Japan

Volume

33

Issue

13

fYear

2015

fDate

July1, 1 2015

Firstpage

2751

Lastpage

2757

Abstract

We propose a novel test light injection tool for fiber identification below an optical splitter in a passive optical network. This tool makes it easy to input a test light into a bent fiber with a lateral light injection technique. We designed a high precision alignment technique to improve the test light injection efficiency and confirmed that the proposed tool can be used for fiber identification below an optical splitter.

Keywords

optical beam splitters; optical communication equipment; optical design techniques; optical fibre communication; optical fibre testing; passive optical networks; high precision alignment technique; lateral light injection technique; optical design; optical fiber identification; optical splitter; passive optical network; test light injection tool; Couplings; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber testing; Optical fibers; Access maintenance equipment; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber network; optical fiber communication; optical fiber network;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2015.2411746

Filename

7057659