High-speed and highly repeatable polarization-state analyzer for 40-Gb/s system performance monitoring

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 643-645

  Yan, L S ^a   Yao, X Steve ^a   Yu, C ^b   Wang, Y ^b   Lin, L ^a   Chen, Z ^a   Willner, A E ^b  

^a General Photonics Corporation   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Monitoring; Optical signal to noise ratio (OSNR); Optics communications; Polarization; Polarization analyzer; Polarization state generation

Indexed keywords

ALL-SOLID-STATE; HIGH-SPEED; OPTICAL SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; OPTICAL SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO (OSNR); OPTICAL SIGNALS; OPTICS COMMUNICATION; PERFORMANCE MONITORING; POLARIZATION ANALYZERS; POLARIZATION SWITCHES;

MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; POLARIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 37949046786     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.870130     Document Type: Article

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