Title :
Combinatorial wavelength selective mirror concatenation for unambiguous subscriber line monitoring in FTTH/PON with high subscriber counts
Author :
Bentz, Christopher M. ; Pachnicke, Stephan ; Krummrich, Peter M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of High Freq. Technol., Tech. Univ. Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
Abstract :
Monitoring PONs with up to 1024 subscribers poses challenges due to splitting losses and drop fiber differentiation problems. We propose an approach using combination of concatenated wavelength selective mirrors to distinguish between different subscriber lines.
Keywords :
optical fibre subscriber loops; passive optical networks; FTTH; PON; combinatorial wavelength selective mirror concatenation; drop fiber differentiation problems; passive optical networks; splitting losses; subscriber counts; unambiguous subscriber line monitoring; Mirrors; Monitoring; Optical fibers; Optical network units; Optical reflection; Passive optical networks;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (PHO), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8940-4
DOI :
10.1109/PHO.2011.6110866
