Highly reconfigurable and integrated optical time-domain reflectometer featuring high spatial resolution for short-reach and long-haul networks

Thomas Mauldin; Zhenyu Xu; Zheyi Yao; Tao Wei

doi:10.1117/12.2596809

7 September 2021 Highly reconfigurable and integrated optical time-domain reflectometer featuring high spatial resolution for short-reach and long-haul networks

Thomas Mauldin, Zhenyu Xu, Zheyi Yao, Tao Wei

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Proceedings Volume 11828, ODS 2021: Industrial Optical Devices and Systems; 1182802 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2596809
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2021, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

With a rising trend to use optical fiber in both short-reach and long-haul network applications, it has become necessary to detect faults with high spatial resolution, sensitivity, and dynamic range in industry. Unfortunately, the most widely used diagnostic technique, optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR), has an inherent trade-off between the above mentioned figures of merit. Consequently, traditional OTDR systems can either be used in short-reach applications with high spatial resolution or long-haul applications with high dynamic range. Both OTDR and optical frequency-domain reflectometry systems have been proposed in the past which can arguably close the gap between the two extremes, but they also have a trade-off with the cost, form-factor, and complexity. Recently, researchers have demonstrated an input/output (I/O) interface integrated OTDR (iOTDR), which uses digital I/O ports to perform OTDR measurements with high spatial and voltage resolution. The iOTDR eliminates the necessity of using high-end analog-to-digital converters and demonstrates its potential to be fully integrated in an optical switch with minimum hardware modification. Additionally, the iOTDR is also reconfigurable and software-defined, making it a power- and resource-efficient solution. Thus, it is especially attractive for short-distance communication links, such as those in a datacenter, where computational resources are limited. This manuscript expands upon the advantages brought upon by the iOTDR to propose and demonstrate a new versatile iOTDR that can achieve high spatial resolution, sensitivity, and dynamic range for both short-reach and long-haul networks thanks to its highly reconfigurable design.

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Thomas Mauldin, Zhenyu Xu, Zheyi Yao, and Tao Wei "Highly reconfigurable and integrated optical time-domain reflectometer featuring high spatial resolution for short-reach and long-haul networks", Proc. SPIE 11828, ODS 2021: Industrial Optical Devices and Systems, 1182802 (7 September 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2596809

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