Experimental demonstration of robustness and accuracy of an MZI-based OSNR monitor under transmitter drift and reconfigurable networking conditions for pol-muxed 25-Gbaud QPSK and 16-QAM channels

Author

Almaiman, A. ; Chitgarha, M.R. ; Daab, W. ; Ziyadi, M. ; Mohajerin-Ariaei, A. ; Khaleghi, S. ; Willner, M. ; Vusirikala, V. ; Zhao, Xingang ; Kilper, D. ; Paraschis, L. ; Ahsan, A. ; Wang, Michael ; Bergman, Keren ; Tur, Moshe ; Touch, J.D. ; Willner, Ala

Author_Institution

Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

9-13 March 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate the robustness of an MZI-based OSNR monitor under reconfigurable network and transmitter drift. The monitor calibration factors for 25 Gbaud PM-QPSK signal are stored after assembly and applied to study the accuracy of the OSNR monitoring unit when different changing scenarios outside the monitor occurred.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; monitoring; optical communication equipment; optical noise; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; 16-QAM channels; MZI-based OSNR monitor; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; monitor calibration; optical signal-to-noise ratio; pol-muxed 25-Gbaud QPSK; reconfigurable network; transmitter drift; Calibration; Monitoring; Optical noise; Optical transmitters; Phase shift keying; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-5575-2994-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1364/OFC.2014.M2I.2

Filename

6887061