Accurate estimation of Q factor for optical performance monitoring applications

Author

Yahya, C.B.

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Sharjah, Sharjah

fYear

2005

fDate

11-14 Dec. 2005

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

An optical performance monitoring method based on synchronous sampling and different computation models has been used to investigate the effect of modeling errors on estimating the Q factor. The results show that modeling errors can be minimized and Q accuracy improved by giving more weight to the transition data points. This was accomplished by converting the linear sampled data to the log domain or using a correction weight to fit the linear data. The estimated Q showed good correlation with measured Q from an OC48 back-to-back experimental measurement at different optical power levels.

Keywords

Q-factor; error statistics; optical fibre networks; optical information processing; performance evaluation; signal sampling; BER; OC48 back-to-back experimental measurement; Q factor estimation; bit error rate; error minimization; log domain; optical fibre networks; optical performance monitoring method; optical power; synchronous sampling model; Bit error rate; Computational modeling; Computerized monitoring; Optical computing; Optical distortion; Optical noise; Q factor; Rails; Sampling methods; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2005. ICECS 2005. 12th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Gammarth

Print_ISBN

978-9972-61-100-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-9972-61-100-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2005.4633508

Filename

4633508