Title :
A wideband OSNR monitoring technique using an optically tunable Mach-Zehnder interferometer
Author :
Jeon, S.-W. ; Song, K.-H. ; Kim, Y. ; Choi, Y.-K. ; Park, C.-S.
Author_Institution :
Sch. ofInformation & Commun., Gwangju Inst. of Sci. & Technol. (GIST), Gwangju, South Korea
fDate :
Aug. 28 2011-Sept. 1 2011
Abstract :
A wideband optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) monitoring technique using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer was proposed. The monitoring error is <; ±0.5 dB with tolerance to polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) at 1 and 10 Gb/s.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; measurement errors; monitoring; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical noise; optical variables measurement; PMD tolerance; bit rate 1 Gbit/s; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; monitoring error; optically tunable Mach-Zehnder interferometer; polarization-mode dispersion; wideband OSNR monitoring; wideband optical signal-to-noise ratio; Monitoring; Optical fiber polarization; Optical interferometry; Optical noise; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference & Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/IQEC/PACIFIC RIM), 2011
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1939-4
DOI :
10.1109/IQEC-CLEO.2011.6193958
