All-optical chromatic dispersion monitoring of a 40-Gb/s RZ signal by measuring the XPM-generated optical tone power in a highly nonlinear fiber

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 430-432

  Luo, T ^a   Yu, C ^a   Pan, Z ^b   Wang, Y ^a   McGeehan, J E ^a   Adler, M ^a   Willner, A E ^a  

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

^b University of Louisiana at Lafayette   (United States)

Author keywords

CD monitoring; Chromatic dispersion (CD); Cross phase modulation (XPM); Highly nonlinear fiber; Optical fiber communication

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIC DISPERSION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DISPERSION (WAVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FIBER OPTICS; MODULATION; MONITORING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL DEVICES;

ALL-OPTICAL; CD MONITORING; CHROMATIC DISPERSION (CD); CHROMATIC DISPERSION MONITORING; CONTINUOUS WAVE; CROSS-PHASE MODULATION; CROSS-PHASE MODULATION (XPM); DATA SIGNALS; HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBER; MONITORING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL-; PROBE WAVELENGTH; RETURN-TO-ZERO SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 48849112724     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.862359     Document Type: Article

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