bsc project (1999)
> Use of the P-OTDR for distributed PMD measurements in optical fibres

At GAP-Optique, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Partner: EXFO; Sponsors: Lucent Technologies, Swisscom
Supervisors: N. Gisin and B. Huttner

abstract



In this bachelor thesis project in applied physics, I got the opportunity to test and further develop a method for locating defectious chunks in already installed telecommunication optical fibres. This method was for telecom operators to replace specific chunks of fibres that suffered from high dispersion of polarisation - a back-then widely spread defect that seriously limited data transmission rate - instead of removing a whole cable that could often be several km long and would be installed deep under the ground.
Results from this project were presented in 1999 at the Optical Fibre Measurement Conference (OFMC'99) and at the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC'99).


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