Fiber monitoring using a sub-carrier band in a sub-carrier multiplexed radio-over-fiber transmission system for applications in analog mobile fronthaul

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 34, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 3118-3125

  Urban, Patryk J ^a   Amaral, Gustavo C ^b   Von Der Weid, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Backscattering techniques; optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR); wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) sub carrier multiplexing passive optical network (SCM PON)

Indexed keywords

FAULT DETECTION; FIBERS; FREQUENCY BANDS; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RADIO-OVER-FIBER; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DETECTION SENSITIVITY; OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; RADIO-OVER-FIBER TRANSMISSION; REFLECTOMETRY MEASUREMENTS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUB-CARRIER MULTIPLEXED; SUBCARRIER FREQUENCIES; SUBCARRIER MULTIPLEXING;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 84980413755     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2016.2559480     Document Type: Article

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