DocumentCode
836194
Title
PMD and Chirp Effects Suppression in RF Tone-Based Chromatic Dispersion Monitoring
Author
Liu, Nian ; Zhong, Wen-De ; Wen, Y.J. ; Lu, Chao ; Cheng, Lin ; Wang, Yannan
Volume
18
Issue
5
fYear
2006
fDate
3/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
673
Lastpage
675
Abstract
We investigate the effects of polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) and chirp on radio-frequency tone-based chromatic dispersion (CD) monitoring method, and show that the PMD and chirp induce significant CD monitoring errors. We propose a CD monitoring technique to suppress these effects. Experiment results show that the CD monitoring errors induced by PMD and chirp fluctuation are greatly suppressed.
Keywords
Chirp; chromatic dispersion (CD); optical performance monitoring; pilot tone; polarization-mode dispersion (PMD); Chirp modulation; Chromatic dispersion; Frequency measurement; Monitoring; Optical fiber polarization; Polarization mode dispersion; Power measurement; Pulse measurements; RF signals; Radio frequency; Chirp; chromatic dispersion (CD); optical performance monitoring; pilot tone; polarization-mode dispersion (PMD);
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1041-1135
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/LPT.2006.870081
Filename
1597292
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