Title :
Field trial to improve the fibre infrastructure towards 40Gbit/s transmission and beyond and decrease economically efficient the link PMD by exploitation of a POTDR
Author :
Ehrhardt, A. ; Paul, M. ; Schürer, L. ; Gerlach, C. ; Krönert, W. ; Fritzsche, D. ; Breuer, D. ; Fürst, V. ; Cyr, N. ; Chen, H. ; Schinn, G.W.
Author_Institution :
Deutsche Telekom Netzproduktion GmbH, Berlin, Germany
fDate :
June 28 2009-July 2 2009
Abstract :
The accumulated PMD along several fibres in an optical network was measured in order to identify those short fibre portions exhibiting high PMD. By replacing high-PMD-portion(s) in each fibre, the overall-PMD could be reduced significantly.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; optical links; POTDR; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; fibre infrastructure; link PMD; optical network; overall-PMD; Attenuation measurement; Measurement techniques; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical sensors; Pulse measurements; Time measurement; 40/100 G transmission; OTDR; PMD; backbone fibre network; field trial; optical fibres;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks, 2009. ICTON '09. 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Azores
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4825-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4827-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2009.5185005
