KEYWORDS: Clocks, Optical networks, Eye, Signal to noise ratio, Signal detection, Modulators, Distortion, Error analysis, Picosecond phenomena, Signal processing
Optical signal quality monitoring is an important function for optical transport networks and future all-optical networks. To monitor the optical signal-to-noise ratio and/or waveform distortion transparently with respect to the signal format, data format, and signal bit rate, we introduce an optical signal quality monitoring method that uses asynchronous sampling, which is a sampling technique that does not use timing extraction. The use of high-speed asynchronous sampling and the adjustment of the sampling rate enable simple open eye-diagram monitoring and evaluation of a fixed-timing Q-factor (Qt) at the maximum eye opening timing phase. This method was experimentally verified using an optical signal quality monitoring circuit, and obtained a good relationship between the measured Qt and Q (which is a Q-factor calculated from the bit error rate (BER)). Moreover, we also introduce an average Q-factor (Qavg) evaluation method, which measures the Qavg value from an asynchronous eye-diagram (timing drifted eye-diagram). This method is useful when the sampling rate is low or when adjusting the sampling rate is difficult.
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