Real-time ultrawide-band group delay profile monitoring through low-noise incoherent temporal interferometry

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 3937-3944

  Park, Yongwoo ^a   Malacarne, Antonio ^a   Azaña, José ^a  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DISPERSION COMPENSATION; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT SOURCES; MONITORING; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; BROAD SPECTRAL; C-BANDS; CHIRPED FIBER BRAGG GRATING; COMMUNICATION WAVELENGTHS; DELAY PROFILES; DEVICE UNDER TEST; DISPERSION COMPENSATING FIBERS; DISPERSION SLOPES; DISPERSIVE DEVICES; GROUP DELAY RIPPLES; INCOHERENT LIGHT; LINEAR PROPAGATION; LOW NOISE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PHOTO DETECTION; REAL TIME; REAL TIME MONITORING; SELF-INTERFERENCES; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; STANDARD DEVIATION; TIME DOMAIN; VIDEO RATES; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

GROUP DELAY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 79952131578     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.003937     Document Type: Article

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