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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 15, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Peter Jeremy Anslow, Bishop's Stortford, GB;
Richard Achille Habel, Kanata, CA;
Alan Glen Solheim, Kanata, CA;
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Limited, Montreal, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/000 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/000 ;
Abstract
The method of monitoring the quality of an optical signal at the site of a R or R regenerator, without performing a clock recovery operation, is based on slicing the recovered voltage with a threshold voltage, manipulated according to a pattern, and averaging the output of the slicer. An eye diagram is simulated by a diagram representing the average voltage versus the threshold voltage.