Monitoring of the OSNR in DWDM Systems Using a Low-resolution Spectrometric Transducer

Author

Morawski, Roman Z. ; Miekina, A.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electron. & Inf. Technol., Warsaw Univ. of Technol.

Volume

3

fYear

2005

fDate

16-19 May 2005

Firstpage

2306

Lastpage

2309

Abstract

The paper is on the monitoring of optical telecommunication channels by means of specialized spectrophotometers, called optical performance monitors. An algorithm for data processing is proposed that makes possible the estimation of central wavelength, power and optical signal-to-noise ratio for all channels in parallel. It is demonstrated that it is guaranteeing an acceptable level of measurement uncertainty when applied to the data provided by a low-resolution spectrometric transducer being the constitutive element of an optical performance monitor

Keywords

channel estimation; measurement uncertainty; monitoring; noise measurement; optical communication; optical fibre networks; optical noise; spectrophotometry; transducers; wavelength division multiplexing; DWDM systems; OSNR monitoring; data processing; low-resolution spectrometric transducer; measurement uncertainty; optical performance monitors; optical signal-to-noise ratio; optical telecommunication channels; spectrophotometers; Monitoring; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Optical noise; Power measurement; Signal to noise ratio; Spectroscopy; Transducers; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength measurement; DWDM; curve fitting; monitoring of optical telecommunication channels; neural networks; spectrophotometers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2005. IMTC 2005. Proceedings of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8879-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604588

Filename

1604588