Title :
Optical performance monitoring technique using delay tap asynchronous waveform sampling
Author :
Dods, Sarah D. ; Anderson, Trevor B.
Author_Institution :
Nat. ICT Australia, Vic.
Abstract :
We propose an asynchronous sampling monitor based on a two-tap delay line. Plotting the joint distribution of the sample pairs provides a representation of waveform distortion containing similar information to an eye diagram, without clock extraction
Keywords :
optical delay lines; optical fibre communication; sampling methods; asynchronous sampling monitor; asynchronous waveform sampling; delay tap sampling; eye diagram; optical communications; optical performance monitoring; two-tap delay line; waveform distortion; Clocks; Data mining; Delay effects; Monitoring; Optical distortion; Optical scattering; Optical signal processing; Propagation delay; Sampling methods; Signal sampling;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-803-9
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2006.215890
