• DocumentCode
    3078943
  • Title

    Moments-based OSNR monitoring for QPSK and QAM coherent optical systems

  • Author

    Zhu, C. ; Tran, A.V. ; Chen, S. ; Du, L.B. ; Do, C. ; Anderson, T. ; Lowery, A.J. ; Skafidas, E.

  • Author_Institution
    Victoria Res. Lab., NICTA Ltd., Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    2-6 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    747
  • Lastpage
    748
  • Abstract
    We present a novel moments-based method for optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) monitoring in polarization-multiplexed coherent optical systems. The method is experimentally demonstrated to show high accuracy in OSNR monitoring over a large range for both constant and non-constant modulus modulation formats.
  • Keywords
    light coherence; light polarisation; method of moments; optical communication; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; OSNR; QAM; QPSK; moments-based method; nonconstant modulus modulation; optical signal-to-noise ratio monitoring; polarization-multiplexed coherent optical systems; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; Optical fibers; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Phase shift keying; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2012 17th
  • Conference_Location
    Busan
  • ISSN
    2166-8884
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0976-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2166-8884
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OECC.2012.6276610
  • Filename
    6276610