• DocumentCode
    2753883
  • Title

    Combinatorial wavelength selective mirror concatenation for unambiguous subscriber line monitoring in FTTH/PON with high subscriber counts

  • Author

    Bentz, Christopher M. ; Pachnicke, Stephan ; Krummrich, Peter M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of High Freq. Technol., Tech. Univ. Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    9-13 Oct. 2011
  • Firstpage
    933
  • Lastpage
    934
  • Abstract
    Monitoring PONs with up to 1024 subscribers poses challenges due to splitting losses and drop fiber differentiation problems. We propose an approach using combination of concatenated wavelength selective mirrors to distinguish between different subscriber lines.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre subscriber loops; passive optical networks; FTTH; PON; combinatorial wavelength selective mirror concatenation; drop fiber differentiation problems; passive optical networks; splitting losses; subscriber counts; unambiguous subscriber line monitoring; Mirrors; Monitoring; Optical fibers; Optical network units; Optical reflection; Passive optical networks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (PHO), 2011 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Arlington, VA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8940-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PHO.2011.6110866
  • Filename
    6110866