All-optical in-band OSNR monitoring at 40 Gb/s using a nonlinear optical loop mirror

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 469-471

  Adams, Rhys ^a   Rochette, Martin ^a   Ng, Trina T ^a   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

In band optical signal to noise ratio (OSNR) monitoring; Nonlinear optics; Optical performance monitoring; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

OPTICAL PERFORMANCE MONITORING; OPTICAL SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; POWER TRANSFER FUNCTION; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 31344462725     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.863641     Document Type: Article

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