• DocumentCode
    3701063
  • 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
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • 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"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341757
  • Filename
    7341757