Title :
Accurate bit error ratio monitor by spectral filtering and optical power measurements
Author :
Oda, Shoichiro ; Yamauchi, Takashi ; Jeng-Yuan Yang ; Akasaka, Y. ; Vassilieva, Olga ; Aoki, Yuya ; Sekiya, Motoyoshi ; Rasmussen, Jens C.
Author_Institution :
Fujitsu Labs. Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan
Abstract :
We propose a novel bit error ratio monitoring method by optical bandpass filter and optical power measurements and experimentally demonstrate its sufficient accuracy with various fiber launched powers and wavelengths in WDM dispersion-uncompensated transmission link.
Keywords :
band-pass filters; error statistics; optical fibre networks; optical links; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM dispersion uncompensated transmission link; accurate bit error ratio monitor; fiber launched powers; optical bandpass filter; optical power measurements; spectral filtering; Bit error rate; Monitoring; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical transmitters; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.W1G.6
