Simultaneous monitoring of both optical signal-to-noise ratio and polarization-mode dispersion using polarization scrambling and polarization beam splitting

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3290-3294

  Yan, L S ^a,b   Yao, X Steve ^b   Shi, Y ^c   Willner, Alan E ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b General Photonics Corporation   (United States)

^c BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Degree of polarization; Optical communications; Optical polarization; Optical signal to noise ratio (OSNR); Polarization mode dispersion (PMD)

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MONITORING; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL LINKS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DEGREE OF POLARIZATION; OPTICAL SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO (OSNR); OPTICAL SPECTRUM ANALYZER (OSA); POLARIZATION-MODE DISPERSION (PMD); POLARIZATION-SCRAMBLING MODULE;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 27844520395     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.855686     Document Type: Article

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