Research Article

Remotely Powered and Reconfigured Quasi-Passive Reconfigurable Nodes for Optical Access Networks

Table 2

Optical link loss.

Fiber attenuation
(0.22 dB/km at 1480 nm)
2.2 dB

Band coupler/splitter insertion loss (0.4 dB/each)0.8 dB

Connector loss (0.3 dB/each)1.2 dB

Power splitter excess loss1.0 dB

Total loss 5.2 dB

E1 30%