• DocumentCode
    552294
  • Title

    PDL in field fibers due to fiber fusion splices

  • Author

    Akasaka, Y. ; Bihon, D. ; Lee, A. ; Davy, M. ; Sekiya, M.

  • Author_Institution
    Fujitsu Labs. of America, Richardson, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    4-8 July 2011
  • Firstpage
    798
  • Lastpage
    799
  • Abstract
    Fiber-PDL, which is normally negligible, increase in plant fibers with imperfect fusion splices. This paper theoretically predicts the PDL occurrence from splices, first time, and verifies this with actual PDL measurements over buried/aerial fibers.
  • Keywords
    finite difference time-domain analysis; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; splicing; aerial fibers; buried fibers; fiber fusion splices; fiber-PDL; field fibers; Finite difference methods; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Splicing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2011 16th
  • Conference_Location
    Kaohsiung
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-61284-288-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-986-02-8974-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6015379