White Gaussian Noise Based Capacity Estimate and Characterization of Fiber-Optic Links [article]

Roland Ryf, John van Weerdenburg, Roberto A. Alvarez-Aguirre, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Rene-Jean Essiambre, Haoshuo Chen, Juan Carlos Alvarado-Zacarias, Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, Ton Koonen, Chigo Okonkwo
2017 arXiv   pre-print
We use white Gaussian noise as a test signal for single-mode and multimode transmission links and estimate the link capacity based on a calculation of mutual information. We also extract the complex amplitude channel estimations and mode-dependent loss with high accuracy.
arXiv:1710.04298v1 fatcat:hxppkv4bjvbkvd7jdmwknxh22y