In order to overcome the Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier(EDFA) gain fluctuations when monitoring long-distance multi-span fiber links with EDFA for existing Optical Time Domain Reflectometry(OTDR)
an additional fill light is needed to maintain power stability. In this paper
based on linear frequency modulated optical time domain reflectometry
a long-distance multi-span fiber monitoring technology that does not require supplemental light to pass through EDFA is proposed. This technique utilizes chirped quasi-continuous light as the probe light to avoid fluctuations in the EDFA gain. At the same time
the fractional-domain Fourier filtering is used to remove the spontaneous emission white noise accumulated in the cascaded EDFA
thereby improving the signal-to-noise ratio of the received signal. The experimental results show that the technology can accurately detect the reflection events at the EDFA and the connection points in the long-distance multi-span fiber link.
关键词
长途多跨段光纤监测掺铒光纤放大器光时域反射仪线性调频
Keywords
long-distance multi-span fiber monitoringEDFAOTDRlinear frequency modulation