18912482. JOINT FIBER MONITORING (Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy)

JOINT FIBER MONITORING

Organization Name

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Inventor(s)

Fabien Boitier of Massy FR

Petros Ramantanis of Massy FR

Jean-Christophe Antona of Sceaux FR

JOINT FIBER MONITORING

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18912482 titled 'JOINT FIBER MONITORING

Original Abstract Submitted

A method and an apparatus. An optical signal is received on an optical channel at an output of an optical link, the optical link comprising one or more fibers connected in series. A longitudinal power profile of the optical link is generated from samples of the optical signal, for a wavelength of the optical channel. The longitudinal power profile indicates a scaled optical power as a function of accumulated chromatic dispersion, the scaled optical power being optical power P times a coefficient which is constant over the length of each of the one or more fibers.