Novel in-band OSNR monitoring system based on a polarization interferometer
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Martinez, J. J.; Roche, M. I.; Villafranca, A.; Heras, C. D.; Subias, J. M.; Pelayo, J.; Garces, I.; Blasco, P.; Pellejer, E.
- Source
- 36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on. :1-3 Sep, 2010
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Optical noise
Signal to noise ratio
Optical filters
Monitoring
Photonics
Optical interferometry
- Language
- ISSN
- 1550-381X
In this communication we propose a OSNR measurement system capable of perform in-band measures of optical noise in OOK/PSK channels. Our design takes advantage of the noise polarization insensibility, using a polarization interferometer to discriminate it from the signals.