Conference Proceedings

Measuring dispersion in WDM links with modulated background ASE

GJ Pendock, W Shieh, Y Xingwen, Y Changyuan

2008 Joint Conference of the Opto Electronics and Communications Conference and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology Oecc Acoft 2008 | IEEE | Published : 2008

Abstract

We demonstrate a technique for monitoring dispersion in WDM systems that is based on injecting RF modulated background ASE. We discuss the noise processes that limit its measurement accuracy.

University of Melbourne Researchers