DocumentCode
861670
Title
OTDR pulse power limit in on-line monitoring of optical fibres owing to stimulated Raman scattering
Author
Scheerer, C.
Author_Institution
Inst. for Commun. Technol., Tech. Univ. of Darmstadt, Germany
Volume
32
Issue
7
fYear
1996
fDate
3/28/1996 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
679
Lastpage
680
Abstract
If a singlemode fibre is monitored with an optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) at 1.65 μm, stimulated Raman scattering causes nonlinear loss for a transmission channel at 1.55 μm. Calculations show that in some cases the permitted OTDR pulse power is limited to a few milliwatts
Keywords
monitoring; optical fibre communication; optical fibre losses; optical fibre testing; optical time-domain reflectometry; stimulated Raman scattering; 1.55 micron; 1.65 micron; OTDR pulse power limit; nonlinear loss; online monitoring; optical fibres; optical time-domain reflectometer; singlemode fibre; stimulated Raman scattering; transmission channel;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19960431
Filename
491897
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