• DocumentCode
    600513
  • Title

    Non-intrusive simultaneous measurement of OSNR, CD and PMD on live WDM system

  • Author

    Morgan, Thomas ; Yu Rong Zhou ; Lord, Andrew ; Anderson, T.

  • Author_Institution
    Monitoring Div. Pty Ltd., Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    4-8 March 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We report the first single-ended simultaneous measurement of OSNR, CD and PMD on a live optical link. We demonstrate successful troubleshooting of the in-service WDM system, showing the ability to diagnose faults without interrupting traffic.
  • Keywords
    fault diagnosis; noise measurement; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; wavelength division multiplexing; CD measurement; OSNR measurement; PMD measurement; in-service WDM system troubleshooting; live WDM system; nonintrusive simultaneous measurement; optical sinal-to-noise ratio; polatization mode dispersion; Calibration; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical noise; Signal to noise ratio; Transponders; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • ISSN
    pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0262-3
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6476336