Real-time Optical Network Sensing Control Plane Enabled by a Novel Sub us Response Time Fibre Sensing Control Device

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel fibre sensing control device and control plane capable of managing backscatter and polarization-based sensing with sub-microsecond response times, enhancing real-time optical network monitoring.

Contribution

The paper presents a new fibre sensing control device and control plane that significantly improve response times for optical network sensing applications.

Findings

Achieved sub-microsecond response time in fibre sensing control.

Successfully controlled backscatter and polarization-based sensing in a fibre network.

Demonstrated practical implementation in experimental fibre network.

Abstract

We propose and implement a novel fibre sensing control device and associated sensing control plane that effectively controls backscatter and polarization-based fibre sensing. We experimentally demonstrate in a fibre network that this device and associated control plane can achieve sub-us response time.