Novel OSNR Measurement Techniques Based on Optical Spectrum Analysis and Their Application to Coherent-Detection Systems
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Abstract
We discuss and review in-service optical-signal-to-noise-ratio measurement techniques with a focus on methods relying on optical spectrum analysis. We briefly review the optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) definition and the measurement procedure employed in early multiwavelength systems with inline amplification, and present in detail the development of the spectrum-based OSNR measurement methods to account for polarized, filtered dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) signals, and further still, to the current generation of DWDM systems based on coherent detection. We present mathematical implementations for the measurement of polarized signals and their evolution to a reference-based method, suitable for measuring polarization-multiplexed signals independent of coherent transmission formats and receiver metrics. The performance of this reference-based technique is illustrated in a wide range of coherent transmission use cases, thus demonstrating its tolerance to fiber nonlinearity induced spectral deformation of the signal. We also explain and demonstrate the ability of this technique to discriminate the amplified spontaneous emission noise due to inline amplifiers from “Gaussian-like” noise generated in a nonlinear operating regime. Finally, we present an extension of this OSNR measurement technique for links where inline filtering causes significant spectral deformations of the signal and we show how it can be applied to troubleshooting and maintenance-monitoring use cases. The OSNR measurement statistics across all test conditions indicate accuracy levels suitable for use in deployed DWDM networks with reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers and coherent transponders.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
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