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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2006
Trevor Anderson, Victoria, AU;
Sarah Dods, Victoria, AU;
Trevor Anderson, Victoria, AU;
Sarah Dods, Victoria, AU;
National ICT Australia Limited, Eveleigh, NSW, AU;
Abstract
A method and device for determining in-band noise of an optical signal. The optical signal is split to produce two optical signal components, of distinct polarisation, such that the respective noise component in each signal component is uncorrelated. The optical signal components are converted to the electrical domain to produce electrical signal components. The signal component powers are equalised either in the optical domain or the electrical domain. The equalised electrical signal components are then subtracted together to cancel the correlated portions of the signal components (e.g. the data signal), such that only uncorrelated signal components (e.g. noise) are output for measurement.