Title :
OSNR monitoring using two fibre interferometers
Author :
Flood, E. ; Guo, W.H. ; Reid, D. ; Lynch, M. ; Bradley, A.L. ; Barry, L.P. ; Donegan, J.F.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Phys., Trinity Coll., Dublin, Ireland
Abstract :
Two Michelson fibre interferomters were used to measure the in-band OSNR of a noisy signal between 5 and 30dB within ±0.5dB without prior knowledge of the noise-free extinction ratio of the signal.
Keywords :
Delay; Interferometers; Monitoring; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical noise; Semiconductor device noise; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
