Conference Proceedings
Multi-impairment monitoring for photonic networks
TB Anderson, SD Dods, K Clarke, J Bedo, A Kowalczyk
2007 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication ECOC 2007 | Published : 2007
DOI: 10.1049/ic:20070143
Abstract
As optical networks become more complex, the need to monitor more than just channel wavelength, power and OSNR becomes compelling. In this paper we describe an asynchronous sampling technique that can measure multiple simultaneous impairments.