In-band OSNR Monitoring Technique based on Brillouin Fiber Ring Laser
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Brillouin Fiber Ring Laser based In-Band OSNR Monitoring Method for
Transparent Optical Networks
David Dahan, Uri Mahlab, Yuval Shachaf
July 2nd, 2012
ECI Telecom Network Division Solutions
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Motivations :
Requirement of in-band OSNR monitor
Deployment of high speed transparent and
reconfigurable optical networks requires
effective, flexible and robust Optical Performance
Monitoring techniques
The most common method to monitor the OSNR
derives the OSNR level by estimating the in-band
noise level using the out-of-band noise level
measurement
However out-of band OSNR approaches lead to
very large underestimation of real OSNR level in
ROADM based networks
There is a strong requirement in developing
efficient in-band OSNR monitor techniques
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Motivations
Delay tap asynchronous sampling
Nonlinear transfer functions using an
optical parametric amplifier
Nonlinear loop mirror
*M.D. Pelusi et al., “Multi channel in band OSNR monitoring using Stimulated Brillouin
Scattering” , Opt. Express,18(9), 9435-9446, 2010
**Dahan et al. , “Stimulated Brillouin Scattering based in-band ONSR monitoring technique
for 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps optical transparent networks”, Opt. Express, 18(15), 2010
PMD and PDL sensitive and not
compliant with polarization
multiplexed modulation formats
CD & PMD sensitive
CD & PMD insensitive*
Compliant with Polarization
multiplexing**
Several in band OSNR monitoring techniques have been proposed
such as :
Polarization nulling techniques
Stimulated Brillouin scattering*
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Brillouin scattering is the interaction between light and sound waves in the
matter. The propagating light beam in the fiber generates a propagating sound
wave which creates a periodic variation of the fiber refractive index. This
generates a Fiber Bragg Grating that backscatters the light through Bragg
diffraction process . The back scattered wave , called “Stokes wave” is
downshifted by ~10 GHz with regard to the incident wave frequency
Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS)
process
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When increasing the launched power of the optical beam, the reflected power
increase linearly due to back Rayleigh scattering effect in the fiber.
Above a given threshold, the reflected power increases exponentially ; this is
due to the stimulated Brillouin scattering effect
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SBS based in band OSNR monitoring
technique : principle & challenges
For a given fixed input power, the back-reflected power is OSNR dependent
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EDFA
Power Meter
For bit rates higher than 10 Gb/s , OSNR requirements at the RX become stronger
and links should be planned to meet OSNR>15dB. Therefore, the in band noise is
not high enough to cause a significant change of the back reflected power in the
OSNR monitor, limiting the accuracy of the OSNR measurement.
Beyond 10 Gb/s, the optical channels present very high SBS threshold due to the
use of carrier-less modulation formats (DQPSK, PM-QPSK,PM-16QAM). This requires
the use of long and expensive nonlinear fiber along with high power optical amplifier to
generate the SBS effect: prohibitive cost of the monitor unit!
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Brillouin Fiber Ring laser based in
band OSNR monitoring technique • A novel, relatively low cost technique for SBS based in-band OSNR monitoring,
compliant with very high bit rates and various modulation formats.
• Enabling to increase and tune effectively the OSNR sensitivity monitoring range
• This technique is based on the lasing process of a Brillouin Fiber Ring Laser
(BFRL) where the optical seed is the modulated signal to be monitored
A 6km DCF is used in the fiber ring
to stimulate the SBS process
The feedback section loss R is
defined as
Because of the optical circulator
configurations, only the Stokes
waves undergoes multiple round trip
into the ring
1 2dB OC OC feedbackfiber splitterR IL IL IL IL
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Power equations of the BFRL
sig Bsig sig Stokes B sig Stokes
eff
Stokes BStokes sig Stokes B sig Stokes
eff
Rayleigh
Rayleigh R sig
dP gP P P B g P P
dz A
dP gP P P B g P P
dz A
dPP P
dz
Assuming parallel SOP of the signal and Stokes waves, steady states differential
equations governing the signal, Stokes and Rayleigh backscattering powers in
the DCF are :
With feedback loss R, DCF length L, the boundary condition are
00
0
0
sig
Stokes
Stokes
Rayleigh
Rayleigh
P P
PP L
R
PP L
R
Simulation parameters Value
L DCF Length 6.1 km
α DCF loss coefficient 0.75 dB/km
αR Rayleigh backscattering
coefficient
2.7 10-3 dB/km
gB Brillouin gain coefficient 1.65 10-11 m/W
B Spontaneous Brillouin
scattering noise coefficient 8.5 10-3
Aeff DCF effective mode area 16 μm2
R Feedback loss (open loop) ∞
Feedback loss (close loop) 4.4 dB
3W m
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Principle of operation Experimental & numerical results for CW signal
Close loop
RdB=4.4 dB
The power threshold is defined as the
input power that leads to
PTH=Pout=PStokes+PRayleigh=2PRayleigh
PTH Pout=PTH+20dB
Pin in close loop 0.3 dBm 0.95 dBm
Pin in open loop 6.5 dBm 9.5 dBm
Open loop
RdB=∞
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Principle of operation Experimental & numerical results for 10.7 Gb/s OOK NRZ
signal
10.7 Gb/s NRZ OOK without frequency dithering 10.7 Gb/s NRZ OOK with 10 kHz frequency
dithering
PTH Pout=PTH+20dB PTH Pout=PTH+20dB
Pin in close loop 4.2 dBm 5.6 dBm 10.2 dBm 14 dBm
Pin in open loop 10.7 dBm 12.9 dBm 17.2 dBm 22.6 dBm
Without frequency dithering With 10 kHz frequency dithering
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In Band OSNR monitor Experimental results for 10.7 Gb/s OOK NRZ signal with
frequency dithering
OSNR range Pin=11.5 dB Pin=11.9 dB Pin=12.3 dBm Pin=13.1dBm
10 dB - 15 dB 0 dB 2 dB 8.6 dB 8.2 dB
15 dB - 20 dB 5 dB 8.5 dB 4.5 dB 2.2 dB
20 dB - 30 dB 5.2 dB 3.3 dB 0.7 dB 0.6 dB
Power dynamic range= Pout variations over a given OSNR range variations
Close loop configuration
(RdB=4.4 dB)
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Carrier-less modulation formats such as DQPSK exhibit a very high SBS
threshold leading to a very high required optical launched power.
In order to reduce the required launched power, a small power fraction of an
optical pilot tone is inserted to a 44.6 Gb/s RZ-DQPSK signal at the output of the
transmitter
We define Optical Signal to Pilot tone Ratio
(OSPR) as :
signal
pilotTone
POSPR
P
For 44.6 Gb/s RZ-DQPSK signal, OSPR level of 13 dB and frequency offset Δf=-12.3 GHz, give
an OSNR penalty of 0.3 dB
An optimal frequency detuning, Δf=fsig-fpilotTone
can be found with reduced the pilot tone induced
penalty at the receiver thanks to the transfer
frequency response of the DLI at the receiver and
the balanced detection
Principle of operation Experimental results for 44.6 Gb/s RZ-DQPSK signal
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In Band OSNR monitor Experimental & numerical results for 44.6 Gb/s RZ- DQPSK signal
OSNR=24 dB, OSPR=13 dB,
offset Δf=-12.3 GHz 44.6 Gb/s RZ-DQPSK signal with OSPR=13 dB,
offset Δf=-12.3 GHz
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Numerical results :
120 Gb/s PM-QPSK signal
Since the PM-QPSK modulation format presents carrier-less spectrum
characteristics, an optical tone is added at the signal carrier frequency.
OSNR penalty < 0.5 dB at BER=1.5E-2 is
achieved for OSPR =16dB in the case of
transmission over a CD uncompensated
link of 1000km.
With OSPR =16dB , the pilot tone
peak is 6 dB above the signal
spectrum
6dB
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Close loop configuration –
RdB=4.4 dB
120 Gb/s DP-QPSK signal with OSPR=16 dB,
offset Δf=0 GHz
In Band OSNR monitor Numerical results for 120 Gb/s PM-QPSK signal
OSNR range 10 dB -15 dB 15 dB -20 dB 20 dB -30 dB
Optimum Pin 17.5 dBm 16.9 dBm 16.6 dBm
Power dynamic range 10.8 dB 6.2 dB 3.2 dB
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Numerical results :
224 Gb/s PM-OFDM signal
The 224 Gb/s PM-OFDM signal is
composed by 128 subcarriers with cyclic
prefix of 12.5%.
Some subcarriers are used as pilot tones for
equalization purposes at the receiver while
the modulated subcarriers use a 16-QAM
modulation scheme.
The OFDM signal presents an RF pilot tone
at the optical carrier frequency for blind
phase noise compensation purposes at the
receiver :this is the main contributor of the
SBS effect
The RF pilot tone peak is 8 dB above the other subcarrier components
8dB
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Close loop configuration
RdB=4.4 dB
In Band OSNR monitor Numerical results for 224 Gb/s PM-OFDM signal
OSNR range 10 dB -15 dB 15 dB - 20 dB 20 dB - 30 dB
Optimum Pin 19 dBm 16 dBm 15 dBm
Power dynamic range 16 dB 14 dB 11.3 dB
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In Band OSNR monitor System calibrations
44.6 Gb/s 120 Gb/s 224 Gb/s
OSNR [dB] Min Max Min Max Min Max
10 9.6 10.4 9.5 10.5 9.8 10.2
12 11.4 12.5 11.4 12.5 11.8 12.3
15 14 16 14 16.1 14.7 15.3
18 16.3 20.3 16.3 20.3 17.5 18.6
20 17.5 24.4 17.5 24.3 19.3 20.7
25 19.8 30 19.9 30 23.2 27.1
Estimated OSNR measurement uncertainty for power monitoring accuracy of +/- 0.1dB
Good
Not good
Such an increase in the OSNR inaccuracy is caused by :
The power dynamic range decreases at high OSNR
Optimum input power into the monitor approaches the lasing threshold level where the
Brillouin laser is very sharp and power monitoring inaccuracies might lead to large errors.
Solution :
Working in the optimized OSNR range of
10 dB -15 dB by adding a known level of ASE
noise before the monitor
Deriving the altered OSNR level
With the knowledge of the ASE added level,
the real OSNR level is estimated *
*Dahan et al. , “Stimulated Brillouin Scattering based in-band ONSR
monitoring technique for 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps optical transparent
networks”, Opt. Express, 18(15), 2010
EDFA
PS
VOAOTF
PD1 DCF OC1
Stokes
signal
Monitored optical signal
Psig,out
OSATX
(Pin)
(Pout)
ASE source VOA
PSPC
50%
50%
50%
50%
MUX
50%
50%
OC2
PD2
ASE sourceVOA
PD0
PC
OSNR range shifter
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Conclusions
We have proposed a novel and improved approach for in-band
OSNR monitoring based on Brillouin fiber ring laser seeded by the
signal to be monitored
We have demonstrated experimentally and numerically that such a
technique enable to reduce drastically the required input power into
the OSNR monitor and provided a large OSNR dynamic power
variations for acceptable monitoring accuracy
In order to provide acceptable monitoring accuracy, the OSNR
monitor should be operated in the optimized OSNR range of 10-15dB
by adding a known ASE level into the signal if needed
For carrier-less modulation formats, a relative low power pilot tone
can be inserted into the signal at the transmitter to reduce the SBS
threshold to acceptable values while leading to relative low OSNR
penalty