Title :
Cost efficient optical FMCW scheme for long range high resolution detection
Author :
Herschel, R. ; Jastram, M. ; Gade, S. ; Schaffer, Christian G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of High Freq. Eng., Helmut-Schmidt-Univ. Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Abstract :
High resolution optical network monitoring based on FMCW using a standard DFB laser is presented. By tracking the chirp rate dependent target position the spatial resolution is increased to 5m keeping 100km range.
Keywords :
distributed feedback lasers; optical communication; chirp rate dependent target position; cost efficient; high resolution optical network monitoring; long range high resolution detection; optical FMCW scheme; spatial resolution; standard DFB laser; Chirp; Optical mixing; Optical pulses; Optical scattering; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0262-3