Abstract
To comprehensively assess the conditions of an optical fiber communication system, it is essential to implement joint estimation of the following four critical impairments: nonlinear signal-to-noise ratio (${{\rm SNR}_{\rm{NL}}}$), optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR), chromatic dispersion (CD), and differential group delay (DGD). However, current studies only achieve identifying a limited number of impairments within a narrow range, due to a lack of high-performance computing algorithms and a unified representation of impairments. To address these challenges, we adopt time-frequency signal processing based on the fractional Fourier transform (FrFT) to achieve the unified representation of impairments, while employing a Transformer-based neural network (NN) to break through network performance limitations. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed estimation method, numerical simulations were conducted on a five-channel polarization-division-multiplexed quadrature phase shift keying (PDM-QPSK) long haul optical transmission system with the symbol rate of 50 GBaud per channel. The mean absolute error (MAE) for ${\rm SNR}_{\rm NL}$, OSNR, CD, and DGD estimation is 0.091 dB, 0.058 dB, 117 ps/nm, and 0.38 ps, and the monitoring window ranges from ${0}{-}{20}\;{\rm dB}$, ${10}{-}{30}\;{\rm dB}$, ${1700}{-}{51{,}000}\;{\rm ps/nm}$, and ${0}{-}{100}\;{\rm ps}$, respectively. Our proposed method achieves accurate estimation of linear and nonlinear impairments over a broad range, representing a significant advancement in the field of optical performance monitoring (OPM).
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