Title :
Techniques to detect and stop fiber fuses
Author :
Kurokawa, Kaneyuki
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Kitami Inst. of Technol., Kitami, Japan
Abstract :
The fiber fuse phenomenon will pose a real danger to optical communication systems constructed with conventional single-mode fiber in the future. I describe techniques to actively and/or passively terminate fiber fuses.
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; fiber fuse detection; fiber fuse stopping; optical communication system; single-mode fiber; Fuses; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber sensors;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.M3J.2
