Span-based Polarization Sensing in Cables Without Reflectors

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Publication Date: 7/1/2025

Event: OECC/PSC 2025

Reference: WC3-3: 1-3, 2025

Authors: Fatih Yaman, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Shaobo Han, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Shinsuke Fujisawa, NEC Corporation; Eduardo Mateo, NEC Corporation; Takanori Inoue, NEC Corporation

Abstract: Polarization-based, multi-span sensing over a link without reflection-back circuits is demonstrated experimentally. It is shown that distributed reflection from Rayleigh scattering can serve as an alternative to reflectors after spatial averaging of the received state-of-polarization

Publication Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11110744