Evaluation of maximum ratio combining in route diversity transmission and application to hitless optical path switching in field installed fibre
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Saito, Kohei; Yokota, Masahiro; Hamaoka, Fukutaro; Yamamoto, Shuto; Kotanigawa, Takashi; Maeda, Hideki; Naka, Akira
- Source
- 2015 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on. :1-3 Sep, 2015
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical fibers
Optical transmitters
Optical switches
Diversity reception
Optical polarization
Optical receivers
- Language
Hitless optical path switching using maximum ratio combining in route diversity transmission is successfully achieved under the condition of a field environment even if there are large polarization mode dispersion and fibre nonlinearities.