Soft-failure Identification and Localization Method Based on Received Optical Signal Quality and Repeater Nodes’ Performance
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Yamamoto, Hiroshi; Watanabe, Kouhei; Date, Hiroki; Shimazaki, Daisaku; Fukuchi, Yutaka; Maeda, Hideki
- Source
- 2023 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2023. :1-3 Mar, 2023
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical fibers
Q-factor
Shape
Repeaters
Optical fiber communication
Optical fiber devices
Transponders
- Language
We propose novel methodology to identify and localize soft-failures using performance metrics monitored at repeater nodes in addition to signal quality monitored at transponders and show feasibility in experiments using commercial equipment and field-deployed fibers.