Nonintrusive fiber monitoring of TDM optical networks

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 305-317

  De Mulder, Bert ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Bauwelinck, Johan ^a   Vandewege, Jan ^a   Qiu, Xing Zhi ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fault detection; Optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR); Optical fiber communication; Optical performance monitoring; Passive optical networks (PONs)

Indexed keywords

FAULT DETECTION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFLECTOMETERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (OTDR); OPTICAL TRANSMITTER; OPTICAL-PERFORMANCE REFLECTOMETRY; PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS (PONS);

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 34147139338     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.887184     Document Type: Article

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