In-service Line Monitoring System using 1650 nm Brillouin OTDR for 8-branched PON Fibres with Individually Assigned BFSs

Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Honda, Nazuki; Araki, Noriyuki; Azuma, Yuji (NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT Corporation, 1-7-1 Hanabatake, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan)

Abstract:
We design an in-service line monitoring system using 1650 nm B-OTDR for measuring 8-branched PON fibres with individually assigned Brillouin frequency shifts, and obtain individual B-OTDR traces of 8-branched PON fibres.