In-line performance monitoring for RZ-DPSK signals using asynchronous amplitude histogram evaluation

Author

Li, Zhihong ; Li, Guifang

Author_Institution

CREOL, Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

Volume

18

Issue

3

fYear

2006

Firstpage

472

Lastpage

474

Abstract

The asynchronous amplitude histogram evaluation technique has been applied to in-line performance monitoring for return-to-zero differential phase-shift keying (RZ-DPSK) signals. The principle of operation was studied by simulation and experiment. It has been demonstrated that residual dispersion and signal optical signal-to-noise ratio can be obtained by Gaussian curve fitting of only one peak in the amplitude histogram of the RZ-DPSK signal

Keywords

differential phase shift keying; monitoring; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; Gaussian curve fitting; RZ-DPSK signals; asynchronous amplitude histogram; in-line performance monitoring; optical signal-to-noise ratio; residual dispersion; return-to-zero differential phase-shift keying; Differential phase shift keying; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Histograms; Monitoring; Optical distortion; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Optical signal processing; Signal to noise ratio; Asynchronous sampling; differential phase shift keying (DPSK); modulation format; optical performance monitoring;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.861968

Filename

1576842