We propose and demonstrate a new technique for monitoring the individual OSNR of each polarization tributary of PDM-QPSK signals. The results show that the performance of this technique is not sensitive to PMD and PDL.
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Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
Date of Conference: 21-25 March 2010