Title :
Evaluation of maximum ratio combining in route diversity transmission and application to hitless optical path switching in field installed fibre
Author :
Kohei Saito;Masahiro Yokota;Fukutaro Hamaoka;Shuto Yamamoto;Takashi Kotanigawa;Hideki Maeda;Akira Naka
Author_Institution :
NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT Corporation, 3-9-11 Midori-cho, Musashino, Tokyo, 180-8585 Japan
Abstract :
Hitless optical path switching using maximum ratio combining in route diversity transmission is successfully achieved under the condition of a field environment even if there are large polarization mode dispersion and fibre nonlinearities.
Keywords :
"Optical fibers","Optical transmitters","Optical switches","Diversity reception","Optical polarization","Optical receivers"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341757
