Low-cost in-band OSNR monitoring based on coherent hybrid in CO-OFDM system

We proposed and demonstrated a cost-effective in-band optical signal to noise ratio (OSNR) monitoring technique based on coherent hybrid in 20Gb/s CO-OFDM system. Less than 0.5dB monitoring error is achieved with 400MHz balanced photodetector (PD).

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