Title :
Uncorrelated beat noise measurement for optical signal-to-noise ratio monitoring
Author :
Chen, Wie ; Tucker, Rodney S. ; Yi, Xingwen ; Shieh, William ; Evans, Jamie S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Parkville, Vic., Australia
Abstract :
We present theoretical analysis and experimental demonstration of a new optical signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) monitoring method using uncorrelated beat noise. The measurement errors are less than 0.6 dB in a 10 Gb/s system.
Keywords :
measurement errors; noise measurement; optical fibre communication; optical fibre testing; optical variables measurement; signal processing; 10 Gbit/s; measurement errors; optical signal-to-noise ratio monitoring method; uncorrelated beat noise measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
