Multimode Fibre Broadband Access and Self-referencing Sensors Networks: Towards Next-generation Fiber-To-The-x Converged Optical Deployments - Tapa blanda

Residential users have a growing need for multiple groups of broadband services, such as video, fast internet or high-quality audio. And optical fibres can offer the physical infrastructure to create a fusion and convergence of the access network for next-generation access services. In this research field, the influence of most parameters that modify the frequency response of both silica-based multimode optical fibres and graded-inedx polymer optical fibres is theoretically and experimentally addressed. Furthermore, the increasing in-building networking feasibility can enhance the automation and integration of numerous optical sensor applications and systems. Related to this latter fact, an efficient multiplexing and sel-referencing scheme for optical fibre intensity sensors is demonstrated. A new approach for individually monitoring optical power loss of drop fibres in access Wavelength-Division-Multiplexing Passive Optical Networks (WDM-PON) is also reported. These WDM-PON topologies are considered to be the target architecture in the long-term for the next-generation access networks in Fibre-To-The-x (FTTx) deployments.

D.S. Montero received the M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Eng. in 2003 from Univ. de Sevilla, and the Ph.D. in Electrical, Electronics and Automation Eng. from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in 2011, where he is currently a Lecturer at the Electronics Technology Dpt. He is the author or coauthor of more than 40 journals and conference papers.