Methods and systems for optical performance monitoring

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8625986
APP PUB NO 20080075457A1
SERIAL NO

11527618

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A method and system to economically monitor an optical OOK signal that can detect perceptible changes in signal quality and identify the type of optical impairment causing the change. The invention requires a new and novel combination of known techniques to create an eye diagram of the transmitted pulse in a wavelength division multiplexing systems and then removing the noise from the eye diagram. Economy of operation is achieve by using asynchronous sampling techniques for generating the eye diagram. The resulting “cleaner” eye diagram is then analyzed to identify any changes in performance. In the preferred embodiment, the analysis is conducted on histograms generated from eye diagram, the histograms are computed at a number of points across the optical signal pulse period.

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  • NYTELL SOFTWARE LLC

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Banwell, Thomas Clyde Howell, US 4 51
Fischer, Russell Bernardsville, US 6 39
Gannett, Joel W Atlantic Highlands, US 2 11
Habiby, Sarry Middletown, US 3 36
Kobrinski, Haim Colts Neck, US 7 922
Skoog, Ronald A Shrewsbury, US 7 37

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