Abstract
We introduce a novel interferometric method for dynamic extinction ratio measurement of temporally demultiplexed pulses by using a high extinction modulator. The resulting extinction ratio is 44dB. Our method has a dynamic range of ~60dB.
© 2008 Optical Society of America
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