Real-Time Monitoring of Cable Break in a Live Fiber Network using a Coherent Transceiver Prototype

2023/07/03 by Mikael Mazur, Mazur, Mikael, Lauren Dallachiesa +23
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies #Electrical Fault Detection and Protection #FOS: Electrical engineering #Integrated Circuits and Semiconductor Failure Analysis #Signal Processing (eess.SP) #electronic engineering #information engineering

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2307.01291

openalex publication_date 2023/07/03 · openalex created_date 2023/07/07 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We monitor a 524km live network link using an FPGA-based sensing-capable coherent transceiver prototype during a human-caused cable break. Post-analysis of polarization data reveals minute-level potential warning precursors and baseline-exceeding changes directly preceding the break.

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