Joint multi-parameter optical performance monitoring scheme based on trajectory information for a Stokes vector direct detection system

Abstract

In this study, we propose and verify a joint multi-parameter optical performance monitoring (OPM) scheme based on trajectory information for the Stokes vector direct detection (SVDD) system, for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. Here, the proposed scheme first performs quantification of the trajectory to construct trajectory information, which not only presents diversity of the received symbols in spatial dimension, but also records the jump pattern among symbols in time dimension. Subsequently, eigenanalysis is introduced to extract critical features hidden in trajectory information and simultaneously achieve the purpose of dimensionality reduction. The effectiveness of the scheme is verified through 14/28 GBaud SVDD binary phase shift keying/quadrature phase shift keying/-8 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)/-16QAM/-32QAM/-64QAM simulation systems. Under the scenario of joint modulation format (MF) identification and optical signal to noise ratio (OSNR) monitoring, the identification rates of all six kinds of MFs achieve 100% within their corresponding reasonable OSNR ranges. Besides that, the average mean absolute error (MAE) of the monitored OSNRs are obtained as 0.03 dB, 0.22 dB, 0.36 dB, 0.41 dB, 0.46 dB, and 0.49 dB for those six kinds of MFs, respectively. Under the scenario of multi-parameter OPM, SVDD-8QAM/-16QAM/-32QAM signals are 100% successfully identified when residual chromatic dispersion (RCD) is located in the ranges of 0–200 ps/nm, 0–190 ps/nm, and 0–160 ps/nm, respectively. The average MAE of OSNR monitoring and RCD estimation for these three commonly used MFs are 1.08 dB and 3.23 ps/nm, respectively. Moreover, the study also demonstrates the robustness for baud rates and a relatively simpler calculation complexity about the proposed OPM scheme.