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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2019
Lumentum Operations Llc, Milpitas, CA (US);
Shane H. Woodside, Ottawa, CA;
Jiamin Zheng, Ottawa, CA;
Lumentum Operations LLC, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
An optical channel monitor (OCM) may include a modulator to provide a modulation signal and a local oscillator (LO) to provide a modulated LO signal. The modulated LO signal may be created by modulating an LO signal based on the modulation signal. The OCM may include a mixer to generate a pair of mixed optical signals. The pair of mixed optical signals may be generated based on mixing the modulated LO signal and an input optical signal. The OCM may include an optical detector to provide, based on the pair of mixed optical signals, a first electrical signal corresponding to a coherent mixture of the input optical signal and the modulated LO signal. The OCM may include a synchronous demodulator to provide, based on the first electrical signal and the modulation signal, a second electrical signal representative of the optical power spectrum of the input optical signal.