Simultaneous Strain and Temperature Measurement Based on Chaotic Brillouin Optical Correlation-Domain Analysis in Large-Effective-Area Fibers

Chaotic Brillouin optical correlation domain analysis (BOCDA) has been proposed and experimentally demonstrated with the advantage of high spatial resolution. However, it faces the same issue of the temperature and strain cross-sensitivity. In this paper, the simultaneous measurement of temperature and strain can be preliminarily achieved by analyzing the two Brillouin frequencies of the chaotic laser in a large-effective-area fiber (LEAF). A temperature resolution of 1 °C and a strain resolution of 20 µε can be obtained with a spatial resolution of 3.9 cm. The actual temperature and strain measurement errors are 0.37 °C and 10 µε, respectively, which are within the maximum measurement errors.

Impact Analysis of the Number of Core on Hexagonal Multicore Fibre

The multicore fibre (MCF) is an effective and auspicious technology to overawe the limitation of the single-mode fibre. One of the important applications of MCF is power over fibre. In this paper, we have been designed eight different hexagonal structures by using 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 cores MCF. Those designs are categorized as even core multicore fibre (ECMCF) for 6, 8, 10 and 12 cores and odd core multicore fibre (OCMCF) for 7, 9, 11 and 13 number of cores. We also studied the impact analysis of odd or even number of the cores. The proposed designs having 140 µm diameter, large effective area of 1256 µ2m and two pitches d1=20 µm and d2=10 µm. The comparative analysis has been done by core multiplicity factor, electric field, coupled power, cross overpower parameter calculated for 10,000 samples. The hexagonal core shape MCF shows better performance if the number of the core in even number.

Ultra-low-loss and large-effective-area fiber for 100 Gbit/s and beyond 100 Gbit/s coherent long-haul terrestrial transmission systems

Ultra-low-loss and large-effective-area fiber has been successfully applied in transoceanic transmission, which is considered as a promising candidate for 100 Gbit/s and beyond 100 Gbit/s coherent long-haul terrestrial optical networks. Several theoretical and experimental investigations have been reported, including provincial terrestrial field trial. To support long-haul terrestrial application, it is urgent to prove that the ultra-low-loss and large-effective-area fiber after terrestrial deployment can significantly enhance the performance of long-haul transmission over 1000 km compared with the conventional single mode fiber. In this paper, we extended our previous work and summarized design methods for complex terrestrial environment. To verify the fiber characteristics in long-haul terrestrial transmission, we installed the longest terrestrial ultra-low-loss and large-effective-area fiber link in the world with a total length of 1539.6 km. The results show that the transmission performances of wavelength-division-multiplexed signals with per-channel data rates of 100 Gbit/s, 200 Gbit/s, and 400 Gbit/s over the ultra-low-loss and large-effective-area fiber are all obviously improved, demonstrating that this fiber is more suitable for ultrahigh-speed long-haul terrestrial transmission.