Optical Monitoring Issues in Highly Transparent Optical Networks

Author

Hinton, Kerry ; Dods, Sarah D. ; Farrell, Peter M. ; Hewitt, Don F. ; Dhosi, George ; Anderson, Trevor B.

Author_Institution

Telstra Res. Lab., Clayton, VIC

fYear

2005

fDate

21-24 Nov. 2005

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

An overview of the applicability of current optical network monitoring technologies is given. It is shown that these technologies are not well suited to fault analysis and location in the next generation of highly transparent dynamically switched optical networks. A new monitoring method, based on heterodyne detection is also described. This method enables information about the phase of the optical field to be extracted.

Keywords

fault location; heterodyne detection; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; optical signal detection; optical switches; fault location; heterodyne detection; highly transparent dynamically switched optical networks; optical field extraction; optical network monitoring technology; Australia; Monitoring; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Protocols; Repeaters; Stimulated emission; Synchronous digital hierarchy; Optical fiber communications; homodyne; performance monitoring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON 2005 2005 IEEE Region 10

Conference_Location

Melbourne, Qld.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9311-2

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9312-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2005.301257

Filename

4085367