A study on the measurement error of the optical vector network analyzer based on single-sideband modulation

Author

Min Xue ; Shilong Pan ; Dan Zhu ; Yongjiu Zhao

Author_Institution

Microwave Photonics Res. Lab., Nanjing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., Nanjing, China

fYear

2013

fDate

26-28 July 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A comprehensive study of the optical single-sideband (OSSB) modulation based optical vector network analyzer (OVNA) is performed to reveal the origination of the measurement error. By applying stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in an 8-km single-mode fiber (SMF) as the device-under-test (DUT), and employing an optical processor to control the high-order sidebands of the OSSB signal, numerical simulation and experiment results indicate that the +2^nd-order sideband introduces the major measurement error, which should be suppressed to improve the accuracy of the measurement.

Keywords

measurement errors; microwave photonics; network analysers; numerical analysis; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; stimulated Brillouin scattering; 2nd-order sideband; device-under-test; distance 8 km; high-order sidebands; measurement error; numerical simulation; optical processor; optical single-sideband modulation; optical vector network analyzer; single-mode fiber; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Adaptive optics; Amplitude modulation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical modulation; Optical variables measurement; measurement; microwave photonics; optical single-sideband modulation; optical vector network analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2013 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOCN.2013.6617214

Filename

6617214