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Characterization, Measurement and Specification of Device Imperfections in Optical Coherent Transceivers

Journal

JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 40, Issue 10, Pages 3163-3172

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2022.3155454

Keywords

Device imperfection; imperfection measurement; nonlinear specification; optical coherent transceiver; optical communication

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Transceiver imperfections become the main impairment in advanced optical coherent communications as baud rate and modulation order increase. This study reviews the modeling, characterization, and measurement of linear imperfections in transceivers, and discusses the estimation and measurement methods for nonlinear imperfections. Linear imperfections are relatively well-understood, while nonlinear imperfections are more complex and require further investigation.
Transceiver imperfections become the primary source of impairment as baud rate and modulation order grow in advanced optical coherent communications. Thus, transceiver imperfections, both linear and nonlinear, need to he appropriately characterized, measured, and specified. Treatments for linear imperfections are relatively mature. This study reviews the transceiver's linear imperfection modeling, characterization, and measurement technologies. In practical applications, in-field measurement using the transceiver and a few low speed additional devices is preferred. In the case of nonlinear imperfections, the situation is complex. One important task is to estimate the nonlinear system performance from the nonlinear characteristics of the devices. In this study, we attempt to establish a connection between them by examining different technologies. Although the orthogonal component has a good correlation with nonlinear system performance, its measurement is prohibitively complex. In the nonlinear noise to power ratio measurement, a certain frequency component of the input signal is notched, and the re-growth component at the notch frequency is measured at the nonlinear device output. The ratio between the re-growth component power and the output signal power is the noise to power ratio. While this method is easy to carry out, it does not correctly estimate nonlinear impairment in general. The reason for this is that the signal incurs different nonlinear responses in two conditions, i.e., with or without a notch. This method accurately estimates the nonlinear impairment in some special but useful cases, such as Gaussian input signals and nonlinear systems whose dominant nonlinear term is the even order term.

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