[WC3] Sensing and Monitoring over Optical Network

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM JST(5:45 AM - 6:00 AM UTC)

[WC3-3] Span-based Polarization Sensing in Cables Without Reflectors

○Fatih Yaman¹, Andrea D'Amico¹, Shaobo Han¹, Shinsuke Fujisawa², Eduardo Mateo², Takanori Inoue² (¹NEC Laboratories America, Inc., ²NEC Corporation)

Keywords:

Distributed fiber optical sensing

Polarization-based, multi-span sensing over a link without reflection-back circuits is demonstrated experimentally. It is shown that distributed reflection from Rayleigh scattering can serve as an alternative to reflectors after spatial averaging of received state-of-polarization.