A Robust Reference Optical Spectrum Based in-Band OSNR Monitoring Method Suitable for Flexible Optical Networks

The in-band OSNR monitoring methods based on the noise-free reference optical spectrum (ROS) have attracted much attention in the field of optical performance monitoring because they are cost-effective and insensitive to chromatic dispersion and polarization mode dispersion. In this paper, we propose a new ROS based in-band OSNR monitoring method that is robust to the distortions due to non-ideal modulation, the variations of the in-line EDFA gain and the number of filtering elements traversed by the signal. Moreover, this method supports using the standard ROS retrieved by the existing machine-learning technique based optical spectrum identification technique, and thus can remove the need to measure the ROS near the transmitter, which is hard to perform, especially in flexible optical networks. These merits make the method more robust and convenient to use in practice. Extensive numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the merits of the proposed method with respect to the existing ROS based methods.

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