• DocumentCode
    1795804
  • Title

    Highly sensitive detection of fiber bending using 1-(μm-band mode-detection OTDR

  • Author

    Nakamura, A. ; Okamoto, K. ; Ogushi, I. ; Hanzawa, Nobutomo ; Katayama, Kengo ; Manabe, Takeshi

  • Author_Institution
    NTT Access Network Service Syst. Labs., Tsukuba, Japan
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    6-10 July 2014
  • Firstpage
    386
  • Lastpage
    388
  • Abstract
    We propose the highly-sensitive detection of fiber bending with an OTDR-based technique that measures the higher-order mode of backscattered light with a 1-μm-band probe light, which is below the cut-off wavelength of standard single-mode fibers.
  • Keywords
    bending; optical fibre subscriber loops; optical fibre testing; optical time-domain reflectometry; backscattered light; fiber bending; higher-order mode; highly sensitive detection; mode-detection OTDR; optical time-domain reflectometry; single-mode fibers; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber sensors; Probes;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fibre Technology, 2014 OptoElectronics and Communication Conference and Australian Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Melbourne, VIC
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6888117