How to Use Optical Reflector for PON Monitoring

SHENZHEN, China - Sept. 22, 2019 - PRLog -- In the PON (Passive Optical Network) network, especially the complex point-to-multipoint PON ODN (Optical Distribution Network) topology applications, rapid monitoring, and diagnosis of fiber fault locations is a challenging subject. At present, optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) tools are widely used for monitoring the fiber network. However, OTDR detection may not be so particularly sensitive to the attenuation of optical signals at the ends of some ODN branch fibers or ONU fibers. The application of FTTx terminal splitter to the main cable signal makes the traditional OTDR fiber optical detection techniques unable to achieve on-off detection. So a cost-effective and wavelength selective fiber optic reflector is a basic method of implementation of optical layer monitoring on the whole length of an FTTx network from the OLT to the ONT in real-time.

In the first-level splitting scene, the fiber optic reflector installed on the ONU side. If the reflected return loss of a certain fiber branch is significantly increased compared with the return loss value of the health file, it indicates that there is a problem with the fiber link of this branch. If all the fiber branches with fiber optic reflectors have obvious return loss at the same time, it indicates that the trunk fiber has a fault.

In the second-level splitting scene, the difference of return loss can be compared to accurately locate whether the distribution fiber segment or the indoor fiber segment has attenuation fault. In both the first and second spectral scenes, there will be a steep drop of the reflection peak at the end of the OTDR test curve, so the return loss value of the longest branch link in the ODN may not be accurately measured. It is necessary to measure the variation of the reflector's reflection level to serve as the basis for fault measurement and diagnosis.

The fiber optic reflector is easy to install in the user's home, so as to determine the location of the optical path fault through different reflections of the test signal. With wide bandwidth and low insertion loss, the FBG reflectors are ideal components to monitor live network utilizing OTDR at the termination of passive optical network without disturbing traffic. HYC provides FBG fiber optic reflectors of various package types, plastic housing, metal housing, and Pigtail type form SC or LC connector, etc.

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