Method of measuring the error rate of an optical transmission system and apparatus for implementing the method
First Claim
1. A method of measuring the error rate of an optical transmission system transmitting a signal, said method comprisesdetecting said signal, asynchronously sampling said signal at a frequency independent of a bit rate of said signal to obtain K samples of said signal at respective limes t1, to tK where K is an integer greater than or equal to 2, computing a bit time of said signal, computing an diagram of said signal using the computed bit time of said signal, and computing an error rate of said signal.
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Abstract
A method of measuring the error rate of an optical transmission system transmitting a signal by
detecting the signal, and
asynchronously sampling the signal at a frequency independent of the bit rate of the signal to obtain K samples of the signal at respective times t1 to tK, where K is an integer greater than or equal to 2.
The eye diagram of the signal,
the error rate of the signal and the bit time of the signal are then computed.
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12 Claims
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1. A method of measuring the error rate of an optical transmission system transmitting a signal, said method comprises
detecting said signal, asynchronously sampling said signal at a frequency independent of a bit rate of said signal to obtain K samples of said signal at respective limes t1, to tK where K is an integer greater than or equal to 2, computing a bit time of said signal, computing an diagram of said signal using the computed bit time of said signal, and computing an error rate of said signal.
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9. Apparatus for measuring the error rate of an optical transmission system transmitting a signal, said apparatus comprising:
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means for detecting a signal that has been transmitted by the optical transmission system, means far asynchronously sampling said detected signal at a frequency independent of a bit rate of said signal to obtain K samples of said signal at respective times t1 to tk where K is an integer greater than or equal to 2, means for digitizing samples obtained at an output of said sampling means, and software for processing said digitized samples to compute a bit time, an eye diagram using the computed bit time, and an error rate of said signal. - View Dependent Claims (10)
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11. Apparatus for measuring the error rate of an optical transmission system transmitting a signal, said apparatus comprising:
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a detector that detects a signal that has been transmitted by the optical transmission system, a sampler head that asynchronously samples said detected signal at a frequency independent of a the bit rate of said signal to obtain K samples of said signal at respective times t1 to tK where K is an integer greater than or equal to 2, a digitizer that digitizes samples obtained at an output of said sampler head, and a computer executing software that processes said digitized samples to compute a bit time, an eye diagram using the computed bit time, and an error rate of said signal. - View Dependent Claims (12)
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