Conference Proceedings
Novel scheme for simultaneous polarisation mode dispersion and optical signal-to-noise ratio monitoring
E Wong, J Tan, A Nirmalathas
Iet Conference Publications | Published : 2005
DOI: 10.1049/cp:20050677
Abstract
We propose a novel scheme to monitor PMD and OSNR using incomplete polarisation extinction of PMD-affected signals. The measured PMD-induced signal leakage is used to alleviate OSNR measurement errors to within 0.8 dB of reference measurements.