Title :
Brillouin-based PON monitoring using frequency-swept pump pulse for gain profile distribution compensation along cables
Author :
Hiroshi Takahashi;Kunihiro Toge;Chihiro Kito;Tetsuya Manabe
Author_Institution :
NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, 1-7-1 Hanabatake, Tsukuba-city, Ibaraki, 305-0805 Japan
Abstract :
We propose a novel Brillouin-based loss-monitoring scheme for passive optical networks (PONs) that can compensate for Brillouin gain profile variations along cables. The highly sensitive measurement of a PON with mixed deployment of different fibre types was successfully demonstrated.
Keywords :
"Optical fibers","Scattering","Probes","Spatial resolution","Gain","Crosstalk","Bandwidth"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341925
