• DocumentCode
    515522
  • Title

    OSNR monitoring using two fiber interferometers

  • Author

    Flood, E. ; Guo, W.H. ; Reid, D. ; Lynch, M. ; Bradley, A.L. ; Barry, L.P. ; Donegan, J.F.

  • Author_Institution
    Semicond. Photonics Group, Trinity Coll., Dublin, Ireland
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    21-25 March 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    In-band OSNR from 5 to 30 dB of a single 10 G NRZ-OOK channel was measured by two fiber interferometers within an accuracy of ±0.5 dB without requirement for knowledge of the noise-free extinction ratio of the signal.
  • Keywords
    interferometers; optical fibre communication; NRZ-OOK channel; in-band OSNR monitoring; two fiber interferometers; Interferometers; Monitoring; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical interferometry; Optical mixing; Optical noise; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-884-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5465231