Title :
OTM- and OTDR-based cost-efficient fiber fault identification and localization in Passive Optical Network
Author :
Urban, Patryk J. ; Dahlfort, Stefan
Author_Institution :
Ericsson Res., Fiber Access Technol., Ericsson AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract :
PON monitoring based on combined Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (OTDR) and Optical Transceiver Monitoring (OTM) is presented. The results on a 25-km 1:32 PON prove the concept and show ~0.02 dB accuracy with theoretical values.
Keywords :
fault location; optical time-domain reflectometry; optical transceivers; passive optical networks; OTDR; OTM; PON monitoring; cost-efficient fiber fault identification; cost-efficient fiber fault localisation; distance 25 km; optical time domain reflectometry; optical transceiver monitoring; passive optical network; Monitoring; Optical fiber cables; Optical fibers; Optical reflection; Passive optical networks;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0213-6
