Title :
A novel passive surveillance scheme for optical transmission systems with multiple in-line optical amplifiers
Author :
Chan, Chun-K ; Chen, Lian-K ; Tong, Frank ; Lam, Dennis
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
Abstract :
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel surveillance scheme for an optically amplified transmission system which allows simultaneous in-service fiber fault identification and optical amplifiers´ status monitoring, without any dedicated light source as in conventional optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR) technique
Keywords :
surveillance; OTDR; fiber fault identification; light source; multiple in-line optical amplifiers; optical amplifier status monitoring; optical time domain reflectometry technique; optical transmission systems; optically amplified transmission system; passive surveillance scheme;
Conference_Titel :
Integrated Optics and Optical Fibre Communications, 11th International Conference on, and 23rd European Conference on Optical Communications (Conf. Publ. No.: 448)
Conference_Location :
Edinburgh
Print_ISBN :
0-85296-697-0
DOI :
10.1049/cp:19971546
