• Study On Optical Communications
  • Vol. 46, Issue 1, 7 (2020)
WANG Qiang1, REN Xiao-lin1, YI Shui-han2, YU Jie-kui2..., ZHANG Pu3 and LI Wei3|Show fewer author(s)
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    DOI: 10.13756/j.gtxyj.2020.01.002 Cite this Article
    WANG Qiang, REN Xiao-lin, YI Shui-han, YU Jie-kui, ZHANG Pu, LI Wei. Long-distance and High-precision LFM Optical Time Domain Reflectometer[J]. Study On Optical Communications, 2020, 46(1): 7 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    In order to monitor the fiber-optic links in Tibet, which are sparsely populated and have long transmission distances. This paper presents a method of improving the spatial resolution and measuring the distance of a Linear Frequency Modulated (LFM) Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (OTDR). The method achieves high spatial resolution and large detection distance by generating an intensity modulated analog chirp signal with a frequency range of 200 MHz and a pulse width of 20 μs. Experiments are carried out on the actual fiber-optic transmission link in Tibet using this method. The experiment results show that the method can achieve a spatial resolution of 0.000 53 km on a fiber link with a length of 240 km. And compared with the single pulse OTDR with the same measurement parameters, the dynamic range is improved by 8.5 dB.
    WANG Qiang, REN Xiao-lin, YI Shui-han, YU Jie-kui, ZHANG Pu, LI Wei. Long-distance and High-precision LFM Optical Time Domain Reflectometer[J]. Study On Optical Communications, 2020, 46(1): 7
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