Presentation Information
[WC3-2]Wavelength Tunable Distributed Vibration Sensing over PON Architecture using Enhanced Scattering Fibers and ITLA
○Benyuan ZHU1, Yaowen Li2, Paul S Westbrook1, Zhou Shi1, Ken Feder1, Ting Wang2, David J DiGiovanni1 (1.OFS Labs, 2.NEC Lab America)
Keywords:
Fiber sensing and other applications,Distributed fiber optical sensing,fibers and fiber devices for sensing,Fiber sensing application incl. monitoring using optical network
We demonstrate a wavelength tunable Distributed-Vibration-Sensing over PON scheme using low-cost ITLA and Enhanced-Scattering-Fibers. Vibrations at frequency grids of 193.40THz and 194.60THz in a PON with 1×16 splitter and 21 km feeder-fiber were successfully detected.