Demonstration of Polarization Optical-Time-Domain Reflectometer for Monitoring of Optical Fiber Lines
2022 Workshop on Microwave Theory and Techniques in Wireless Communications (MTTW 2022) 2022
Jānis Braunfelds, Sandis Spolītis, Lilita Ģēģere, Dmitrijs Pikuļins, Vsevolods Stepanovs, Andis Supe

Monitoring of optical signal polarization state in optical fiber networks can provide a variety of information for infrastructure owners. There is a rather limited choice of available techniques for monitoring the change in a polarization state of an optical signal over the transmission line. Mostly, as the typical measurement, the total optical line polarization mode dispersion (PMD) is determined, or the instantaneous change in polarization state at the line input or output is measured. But that does not allow determining the location and cause of sudden polarization changes in an optical fiber. The authors propose a polarization monitoring technique using a traditional commercially-used optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) with additional circuitry to generate polarization-dependent measurement traces. Such a technique can potentially be used for continuously tracking a physical impact on an optical fiber link.


Keywords
polarization optical time domain reflectometer
DOI
10.1109/MTTW56973.2022.9942583
Hyperlink
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9942583

Braunfelds, J., Spolītis, S., Ģēģere, L., Pikuļins, D., Stepanovs, V., Supe, A. Demonstration of Polarization Optical-Time-Domain Reflectometer for Monitoring of Optical Fiber Lines. In: 2022 Workshop on Microwave Theory and Techniques in Wireless Communications (MTTW 2022), Latvia, Riga, 5-7 October, 2022. Piscataway: IEEE, 2022, pp.9-12. ISBN 978-1-6654-6440-6. e-ISBN 978-1-6654-6439-0. Available from: doi:10.1109/MTTW56973.2022.9942583

Publication language
English (en)
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