DocumentCode
1448075
Title
Measurement of Residual Chromatic Dispersion or OSNR via Nonlinear Spectral Evolution
Author
Courvoisier, Clément ; Fatome, Julien ; Finot, Christophe
Author_Institution
Lab. Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, Univ. de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Volume
23
Issue
9
fYear
2011
fDate
5/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
537
Lastpage
539
Abstract
In this work, we report a new fiber architecture providing high accuracy measurements of both residual chromatic dispersion and optical signal-to-noise ratio. Taking advantage of the nonlinear spectral evolution of pulses propagating in a Kerr medium, we have numerically and experimentally validated the use an anomalous dispersive fiber combined with a central spectral filtering.
Keywords
nonlinear media; optical Kerr effect; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre filters; Kerr medium; OSNR; anomalous dispersive fiber; fiber architecture; nonlinear spectral evolution; optical signal-to-noise ratio; residual chromatic dispersion; spectral filtering; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical filters; Optical noise; Signal to noise ratio; Nonlinear optics; optical fiber; optical performance monitoring; optical telecommunication;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1041-1135
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/LPT.2011.2113372
Filename
5711638
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