Application of blind signal separation to WDM optical transmission monitoring

Author

Yumang Feng ; Zarzoso, Vicente ; Nandi, Asoke K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Electron., Univ. of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

fYear

2002

fDate

3-6 Sept. 2002

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A cost-effective technique to monitor the performance of wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) channels in optical networks is presented. This process uses a blind signal separation (BSS) method based on higher-order-statistics (HOS), and an optical-loop structure. The technique is illustratively demonstrated for four and eight 10-Gb/s channels spaced by 3.2-nm and 1.6-nm respectively. Relative to previously proposed methods for WDM-channel extraction, the HOS-based optical-loop procedure shows a reduced complexity, a better cost-efficiency, and an improved performance.

Keywords

blind source separation; statistical analysis; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; HOS-based optical-loop procedure; WDM optical transmission monitoring; WDM-channel extraction; blind signal separation; higher-order- statistics; optical networks; optical-loop structure; wavelength-division-multiplexed channels; High-speed optical techniques; Monitoring; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Photonics; Wavelength division multiplexing; blind signal separation; higher-order statistics; monitoring; optical networks; wavelength-division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing Conference, 2002 11th European

Conference_Location

Toulouse

ISSN

2219-5491

Type

conf

Filename

7071957