• DocumentCode
    3504715
  • Title

    OSNR monitoring technique based on four-wave mixing for polarization-division multiplex transmission

  • Author

    Huh, J.Y. ; Chung, H.S. ; Chung, Y.C. ; Kim, G.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Opt. Internet Dept., Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejeon, South Korea
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    11-14 July 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We propose and demonstrate a novel OSNR monitoring technique for polarization division multiplexed (PDM) transmission. This technique based on four-wave mixing in nonlinear medium can individually monitor the OSNR values of X-axis and Y-axis signals in 80-Gbps PDM-NRZ transmission with accuracy of 0.5 dB.
  • Keywords
    electromagnetic wave polarisation; multiwave mixing; optical communication; wavelength division multiplexing; OSNR monitoring; PDM-NRZ transmission; X-axis signal; Y-axis signal; bit rate 80 Gbit/s; four-wave mixing; nonlinear medium; optical signal-to-noise ratio; polarization-division multiplex transmission; Fiber optics; Monitoring; Nonlinear optics; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Probes; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Internet (COIN), 2010 9th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Jeju
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7181-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8221-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/COIN.2010.5546340
  • Filename
    5546340