Fiber Monitoring Using a Sub-Carrier Band in a Sub-Carrier Multiplexed Radio-Over-Fiber Transmission System for Applications in Analog Mobile Fronthaul

In this paper, we describe an efficient method for monitoring fiber links utilizing sub-carrier multiplexing. By assigning a void sub-carrier frequency band for monitoring purposes, the method reuses the data transmitter without any impact on data transmission and provides capability of in-service r...

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Published in:Journal of lightwave technology 2016-07, Vol.34 (13), p.3118-3125
Main Authors: Urban, Patryk J., Amaral, Gustavo C., von der Weid, Jean Pierre
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Backscattering techniques
Mobile communication
Monitoring
Optical fibers
Optical network units
optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR)
Optical transmitters
wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)/sub-carrier multiplexing-passive optical network (SCM-PON)
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Summary:In this paper, we describe an efficient method for monitoring fiber links utilizing sub-carrier multiplexing. By assigning a void sub-carrier frequency band for monitoring purposes, the method reuses the data transmitter without any impact on data transmission and provides capability of in-service reflectometry measurements of fiber optic lines with 10-m spatial resolution and 1.0-dB fault detection sensitivity. Its promising properties and performance enable potential application in emerging networks such as relatively short distance analogue mobile fronthaul.
ISSN:0733-8724
1558-2213
DOI:10.1109/JLT.2016.2559480