DocumentCode
449261
Title
Channel monitoring in WDM systems by utilizing polarization scrambling
Author
Sköld, Mats ; Olsson, Bengt-Erik ; Sunnerud, Henrik ; Karlsson, Magnus ; Andrekson, Peter A.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Microtechnol. & Nanosci., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden
Volume
3
fYear
2005
fDate
25-29 Sept. 2005
Firstpage
719
Abstract
We demonstrate a novel technique for channel monitoring in polarization scrambled WDM systems using only a polarizer and a detector at the monitoring node. Information about the system polarization properties is also obtained.
Keywords
optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; optical polarisers; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM; channel monitoring; detector; polarization scrambling; polarizer;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location
IET
ISSN
0537-9989
Print_ISBN
0-86341-543-1
Type
conf
Filename
1576476
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