Monitoring alignment between pulse carvers and phase...

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2005-12-06

2005-12-06

Toatley, Jr., Gregory J. (Department: 2877)

Optics: measuring and testing

By polarized light examination

C356S365000, C398S184000, C398S186000

Reexamination Certificate

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06972842

ABSTRACT:
Timing alignment between a pulse carver (i.e., intensity modulator) and a phase modulator, e.g., in a return-to-zero (RZ) differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) optical transmitter, is monitored by filtering a signal from the transmitter and measuring the power of the filtered signal. In certain embodiments, the filter has a birefringent device (such as a polarization-maintaining fiber) and a polarizer. The polarizer may be a rotating polarizer with a rotating quarter-wave plate in front of it. In other embodiments, the filter is a periodic filter such as a Mach-Zehnder interferometer or an etalon filter. Regardless, the measured power may be used to generate control signals used to variably delay the signals that drive the phase modulator and/or the pulse carver to compensate for detected misalignment. The measured power may also be used to monitor the bit-error-rate degradation caused by timing misalignment between the pulse carver and the phase modulator.

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patent: 5850305 (1998-12-01), Pidgeon
patent: 6201632 (2001-03-01), Rollins
patent: 6452714 (2002-09-01), Rollins
patent: 2005/0002675 (2005-01-01), Sardesai et al.

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