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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2021
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Fabio Bottoni, Milan, IT;
Alessandro Cavaciuti, San Donato Milanese, IT;
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for assessing the quality of an optical transmitter and/or its interoperability with a receiver. The method includes obtaining an optical signal output by an optical transmitter and performing coherent optical-to-electrical detection of the optical signal to produce an in-phase receive signal and a quadrature receive signal. The method further includes a computing device emulating a worst-case configuration of an optical fiber with which the optical transmitter is to be used, based on the in-phase receive signal and the quadrature receive signal to produce a noise contribution associated with the worst-case characteristics of the optical fiber and determining a figure of merit of the optical transmitter based on the noise contribution.