Coherent technology is designed to overcome impairments such as chromatic and polarization mode dispersion. But, depending upon your application, that doesn’t mean you can retire your dispersion measurement equipment. Francis Audet, who works in the Office of the CTO at EXFO, describes the challenges coherent technology brings to network test and how to solve them.
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