Quality monitoring of optical signals influenced by chromatic dispersion in a transmission fiber using averaged Q-factor evaluation

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 385-387

  Shake, Ippei ^a   Takara, Hidehiko ^a   Uchiyama, Kentaro ^a   Yamabayashi, Yoshiaki ^b  

^a NTT Network Innovation Laboratories   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amplitude histogram; Averaged Q factor; Chromatic dispersion; Fault detection; Performance monitoring

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; DISPERSION (WAVES); LIGHT TRANSMISSION; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CHROMATIC DISPERSION;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0035303601     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.917861     Document Type: Article

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