Investigation of the effect of an increased supervisory signal power in a high-loss loopback monitoring system

Keith Blow, Mousaab Nahas

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Abstract

We present experimental results for the effect of an increased supervisory signal power in a high-loss loopback supervisory system in an optically amplified wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) transmission line. The study focuses on the investigation of increasing the input power for the supervisory signal and the effect on the co-propagating WDM data signals using different channel spacing. This investigation is useful for determining the power limitation of the supervisory signal if extra power is needed to improve the monitoring. The study also shows the effect of spacing on the quality of the supervisory signal itself because of interaction with adjacent data signals.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)800-804
Number of pages5
JournalIET Communications
Volume8
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Apr 2014

Bibliographical note

This paper is a preprint of a paper accepted by IET communications and is subject to Institution of Engineering and Technology Copyright. When the final version is published, the copy of record will be available at IET Digital Library.

Keywords

  • loopback
  • optical
  • supervisory

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