Advanced Fault-Monitoring Scheme for Ring-Based Long-Reach Optical Access Networks

• This paper presents a novel fiber fault-monitoring system for long-reach optical access networks based on a transmission-reflection analysis approach. By launching an un-modulated continuous-wave optical signal into the feeder ring and measuring the transmitted and reflected/backscattered optical powers, the proposed monitoring scheme is able to detect, identify, and localize any major fault (covering both reflective and nonreflective events) with a good spatial accuracy (<= 10 m) and a high detection speed (3 s). Both experimental and simulation results have demonstrated that the proposed system provides fiber monitoring functionality better than that obtained by the conventional methods.

Ämnesord

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Fault monitoring

long-reach passive optical network

transmission-reflection analysis

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