Title :
Dynamic dispersion slope monitoring of many WDM channels using dispersion-induced RF clock regeneration
Author :
Sahin, A.B. ; Yan, L.-S. ; Yu, Qian ; Hauer, M. ; Pan, Z. ; Willner, A.E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate an inline dispersion slope monitoring scheme for dynamically measuring the residual dispersion in dispersion managed fiber optic links by taking advantage of chromatic dispersion induced RF clock regeneration.
Keywords :
clocks; monitoring; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM channels; chromatic dispersion; dispersion managed fiber optic links; dispersion-induced RF clock regeneration; dynamic dispersion slope monitoring; fiber link distance; inline dispersion slope monitoring; normalized clock amplitude; residual dispersion measurement; transmission distance; Chromatic dispersion; Clocks; Monitoring; Optical fiber networks; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; RF signals; Radio frequency; Repeaters; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6705-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2001.989708
