Multi-channel in-band OSNR monitoring using Stimulated Brillouin Scattering

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 9435-9446

  Pelusi, Mark D ^a   Fu, Amy ^a   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; POLARIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONICS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

40 GB/S; BACK-SCATTERED; CARRIER WAVELENGTH; CHROMATIC AND POLARIZATION-MODE DISPERSIONS; DYNAMIC RANGE; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; IN-BAND; INPUT STATE; KERR EFFECTS; MULTI-CHANNEL; MULTIPLE CHANNELS; NONLINEAR WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL PERFORMANCE MONITORS; OPTICAL SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STOKES WAVE;

STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 77952084548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.009435     Document Type: Article

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