Published July 2, 2017 | Version v1
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All-optical in-band OSNR estimation in coherent optical OFDM systems

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
  • 2. Aragón Photonics Labs S.L.
  • 3. NICT

Description

In-band OSNR measurement for CO-OFDM systems using high-resolution spectral analysis is experimentally demonstrated. It is shown that signal and noise levels can be monitored by direct optical spectrum analysis, avoiding the need for data demodulation.

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Grant numbers : This work was funded in part by the project DESTELLO (TEC201569256R).© 2017 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.

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European Commission
STRAUSS-EU - Scalable and efficienT oRchestrAtion of Ethernet services Using Software-defined and flexible optical networkS-EU 608528