Monitoring of optical signals from constellation diagrams measured with linear optical sampling

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 313-321

  Dorrer, Christophe ^a,b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Electric field measurement; Homodyne detection; Interfcrometry; Optical pulse measurements; Phase shift keying

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION (ASE); HOMODYNE DETECTION; LINEAR OPTICAL SAMPLING; OPTICAL PULSE MEASUREMENTS; PHASE FLUCTUATIONS;

OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 33747206766     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.859831     Document Type: Article

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