Non-intrusive measurement of In-Band OSNR of high bitrate polarization-multiplexed signals
The In-Band OSNR of polarization-multiplexed signals in deployed networks may be determined non-intrusively with a novel modulation-format-agnostic approach suitable for implementation in field-portable optical spectrum analyzers. This approach advantageously makes use of available optical taps in the network for simultaneous measurement of all the channels of a high-bandwidth DWDM system. We have confirmed the validity of this approach using measurements acquired on polarization-multiplexed signals in representative high-bandwidth network testbeds.
osnr polarization muliplexing polmux dp-qpsk in-band measurement