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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nyarangi, W.K.
• Kipnoo, E.K. Rotich
• Masinde, F.W.
• Rop, R.K.
• Gibbon, T.B.
• Cherutoi, H.C.

Titel

Towards the Design of a Distributed Fiber Optical Sensor for Mining Applications

Ist Teil von

• 2023 IEEE AFRICON, 2023, p.1-4

Ort / Verlag

IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

IEEE Electronic Library Online

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We propose a fiber sensor that relies on linear optics for mining application. An optical fiber is used as a sensing element. In this work, we investigate the optical transmissions on an externally modulated fiber optic network. A 10 Gbps BPSK signal is transmitted over a non-zero dispersion shifted fiber (NZDSF). An error free transmission of up to 76 km on a Mach-Zehnder Modulator (MZM) source and 50 km on a Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) source respectively is achieved without amplification.