Title :
Asynchronous measurement of chromatic dispersion from waveform distortion
Author :
Anderson, Trevor B. ; Dods, Sarah D. ; Wong, Elaine ; Farrell, Peter M.
Author_Institution :
Nat. ICT Australia, Melbourne Univ., Vic., Australia
Abstract :
We propose a new method to monitor chromatic dispersion, based on two-tap asynchronous sampling. We experimentally demonstrate sensitivity to dispersion between 160 and 800 ps/nm, which matches the tolerances of typical commercial 10 Gbit/s receivers.
Keywords :
monitoring; optical distortion; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical receivers; 10 Gbit/s; chromatic dispersion; receivers; two-tap asynchronous sampling; waveform distortion; Chromatic dispersion; Distortion measurement; Monitoring; Optical attenuators; Optical distortion; Optical feedback; Optical filters; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Sampling methods;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-803-9
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2006.215601
