[WC3] Sensing and Monitoring over Optical Network

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM JST(5:30 AM - 5:45 AM UTC)

[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 (United States of America), 2. NEC Lab America (United States of 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.