• DocumentCode
    520849
  • 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
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5500451