Monitoring optical network performance degradation due to amplifier noise |
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| Authors: | Kilper DC Weingartner W |
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| Affiliation: | Lucent Technol. Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA; |
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| Abstract: | The relationship between optical performance as monitored within a network and the end terminal optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) and bit error ratio (BER) is measured for the case of performance degradation due to amplified spontaneous emission noise. Measurements on 10-Gb/s signals reveal that performance monitoring sensitivity to OSNR levels of 26 dB is sufficient for identifying degradations that impact the end terminal BER. |
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