Title : 
Optical Performance Monitoring: From direct detection to coherent optical communication systems
         
        
            Author : 
Chao Lu ; Lau, Alan Pak Tao ; Qi Sui ; Khan, Faraz ; Zhenhua Dong
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Hong Kong, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Summary form only given. We review techniques used for monitoring various signal parameters of direct detection optical communication systems and networks. Emerging optical performance monitoring (OPM) trends and challenges for coherent communication systems are discussed.
         
        
            Keywords : 
light coherence; optical communication; coherent optical communication systems; direct detection; optical performance monitoring; signal parameters;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2012 Asia
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Guangzhou
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-6274-0