Optical transmission line test equipment and test method

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide an optical transmission line test apparatus and a test method capable of measuring a cumulative crosstalk of an optical transmission line in which a plurality of uncoupled multi-core fibers are connected in series from one end side with an OTDR. An optical transmission line test apparatus 301 according to the present invention measures a cumulative crosstalk of an optical transmission line 50 in which a plurality of uncoupled multi-core fibers 50-i are connected in series. The optical transmission line test apparatus 301 includes a test light input unit 10 that inputs optical pulses to each of cores of the uncoupled multi-core fiber 50-1 at one end 50a of the optical transmission line 50; a reception unit 20 that receives backscattered light for each of the cores output from one end 50a; and a calculation unit 30 that acquires a loss distribution occurring in each of the cores from the backscattered light, and calculates the cumulative crosstalk from a connection loss at a connection point zj of the uncoupled multi-core fiber obtained from the loss distribution and a known inter-core mode coupling of each of the uncoupled multi-core fibers 50-i.

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