Title :
Experimental demonstration of multi-impairment monitoring on a commercial 10 Gbit/s NRZ WDM channel
Author :
Anderson, Trevor ; Clarke, Ken ; Beaman, Dan ; Ferra, Herman ; Birk, Martin ; Zhang, Guodong ; Magill, Peter
Author_Institution :
Monitoring Div. Inc., Melbourne, VIC
Abstract :
We present the first experimental demonstration of simultaneous monitoring of firstorder PMD with random power-split and chromatic dispersion using asynchronous delay-tap sampling, in a commercial 10 Gbit/s WDM test-bed. Accuracies achieved were plusmn3.1 ps and plusmn17 ps/nm.
Keywords :
optical fibres; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM channel; asynchronous delay-tap sampling; chromatic dispersion; fiber optics links; multi-impairment monitoring; random power-split; Delay; Monitoring; Optical feedback; Optical fiber networks; Optical noise; Optical signal processing; Sampling methods; Signal to noise ratio; Testing; Wavelength division multiplexing; (060.2360) Fiber optics links and subsystems;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2606-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-865-0
