OPTICAL SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO DETECTION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM - Patent application

Abstract

An optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method, device, and computer storage medium. The optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method includes the steps of: adjusting a detection light source to a spontaneous emission state (S100); adjusting a signal width of the detection light source to a first width according to a spectral bandwidth of a channel to be measured to obtain a channel total power at an optical performance monitoring point of a receiving station (S200); adjusting a signal width of the detection light source to a second width to obtain a noise power at an optical performance monitoring point of a receiving station (S300), where the second width is smaller than the first width and the center frequencies of the corresponding signals of both are shifted (S300); and determining an optical signal-to-noise ratio of the channel to be measured from the channel total power and the noise power (S400).

Description

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[0001] This application is filed based on a Chinese patent application bearing application number 202110719881.2 and filing date June 28, 2021, and claims priority to the Chinese patent application, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference into this application.

[0002] The present application relates to the technical field of optical performance detection, and in particular to an optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method, apparatus, and computer storage medium. [Background technology]

[0003] Optical Transport Network (OTN) technology is a new optical transmission technology that can realize the functions of transmission, switching, multiplexing, etc. of signals of various granularities. Optical transmission networks have important requirements for service survivability, and there are a large number of idle optical path resources in optical transmission networks, and they provide recovery path resources for fault services.

[0004] Currently, the mainstream optical path performance detection technologies evaluate the performance of the optical path to be detected based on the performance parameters of the service optical signal of the optical path to be detected, such as optical power and optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR). However, there is no service optical signal in the idle channels of the optical transmission network, and the devices through which the idle channels pass, such as optical switches and wavelength selective switches (WSS), are also in the off state. In this case, conventional technologies cannot monitor the optical performance of these idle channels. Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0005] The following is a summary of the subject matter described in detail herein, which is not intended to limit the scope of protection of the claims.

[0006] SUMMARY OF THE DISCLOSURE The present disclosure provides an optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method, apparatus, and computer storage medium for detecting an optical signal-to-noise ratio of an idle channel by adjusting the signal width of a detection light source. [Means for solving the problem]

[0007] In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method, which is applied to an optical signal-to-noise ratio detection system, which includes a detection light source disposed in a sending station, and an output terminal of the detection light source is connected to a line side port of the sending station. The optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method includes: tuning the detection light source to a spontaneous emission state; a step of adjusting a signal width of the detection light source to a first width according to a spectral bandwidth of a channel to be measured, to obtain a channel total power at an optical performance monitoring point of a receiving station, the channel to be measured being an idle channel from a line side port of the transmitting station to a line side port of the receiving station, and the first width being equal to or less than the spectral bandwidth of the channel to be measured; adjusting a signal width of the detection light source to a second width to obtain a noise power at an optical performance monitoring point of the receiving station, the second width being smaller than the first width, and a center frequency of the signal corresponding to the second width being shifted from a center frequency of the signal corresponding to the first width; determining an optical signal-to-noise ratio of the channel to be measured from the total channel power and the noise power.

[0008] In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method, which is applied to an optical signal-to-noise ratio detection system, which includes a detection light source disposed in a remote station, and an output terminal of the detection light source is connected to a line side port of the remote station. The optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method includes: tuning the detection light source to a spontaneous emission state; a step of adjusting a signal width of the detection light source to a first width according to a spectral bandwidth of the channel to be measured, to obtain a first channel total power at an optical performance monitoring point of a transmitting station and a second channel total power at an optical performance monitoring point of a receiving station, the channel to be measured being an idle channel from a line side port of the transmitting station to a line side port of the receiving station, and the first width being equal to or less than the spectral bandwidth of the channel to be measured; adjusting a signal width of the detection light source to a second width to obtain a first noise power at an optical performance monitoring point of the sending station and a second noise power at an optical performance monitoring point of the receiving station, the second width being smaller than the first width, and a center frequency of a signal corresponding to the second width being shifted from a center frequency of a signal corresponding to the first width; determining an optical signal-to-noise ratio of the channel to be measured from the first channel total power, the second channel total power, the first noise power, and the second noise power.

[0009] In a third aspect, embodiments of the present application provide an optical signal to noise ratio detection system, the optical signal to noise ratio detection system including at least one processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; The memory stores instructions executable by the at least one processor, which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform the optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method described in the first aspect or the optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method described in the second aspect.

[0010] In a fourth aspect, embodiments of the present application also provide a computer readable storage medium, the computer readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions for causing a computer to perform the optical signal to noise ratio detection method according to the first aspect or the optical signal to noise ratio detection method according to the second aspect. Effect of the Invention

[0011] The optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method according to the embodiment of the present application has at least the following beneficial effects: When the optical signal-to-noise ratio detection of the embodiment of the present application is applied to an idle service path, the detection light source provides the channel to be measured with the detection light, and at the same time, the waveform of the detection light source is changed, and the channel total power and noise power monitored at the optical performance monitoring point of the receiving station are used to calculate the optical signal-to-noise ratio of the channel to be measured, thereby realizing the optical performance monitoring of the idle service path, thereby greatly improving the network maintenance and management capabilities. Compared with the existing optical performance monitoring method, the embodiment of the present application adjusts the signal width of the detection light source according to the spectral bandwidth of the channel to be measured, so as to better adapt to the environment of the channel to be measured in the transmission service state, and obtain a more accurate optical signal-to-noise ratio result.

[0012] Other features and advantages of the present application will be set forth in the following specification, and in part will be obvious from the specification, or may be learned by the practice of the present application. The objectives and other advantages of the present application may be attained by the structure particularly pointed out in the specification, claims, and drawings.

[0013] The drawings are used to provide a further understanding of the technical solution of the present application, constitute a part of the specification, and are used together with the examples of the present application to explain the technical solution of the present application, but are not intended to limit the technical solution of the present application. [Brief description of the drawings]

[0014] [Figure 1] 1 is a flow chart of an overall optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method according to an embodiment of the present application; [Diagram 2] FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of channel power at a first width according to an embodiment of the present application; [Diagram 3] FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of channel power at a second width according to an embodiment of the present application. [Figure 4] 4 is a flow chart for adjusting an operating state of a detection light source according to an embodiment of the present application. [Diagram 5] 4 is a flow chart for calculating the optical signal-to-noise ratio of a channel under test when directly connected to an idle port according to one embodiment of the present application; [Figure 6] 4 is a flow chart for calculating the optical signal-to-noise ratio of a channel under measurement when it is not directly connected to an idle port according to one embodiment of the present application; [Figure 7] 1 is a flow chart of an overall optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method according to an embodiment of the present application; [Figure 8] 4 is a flow chart for calculating the optical signal-to-noise ratio of a channel to be measured for a remote station according to one embodiment of the present application; [Figure 9] FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a network structure according to Example 1 of the present application. [Figure 10] FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a network structure according to Example 2 of the present application. [Figure 11] FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a network structure according to Example 3 of the present application. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

[0015] In order to more clearly understand the objectives, technical solutions and advantages of the present application, the present application will be described in more detail below with reference to the drawings and examples, in which the specific examples described in the present application are only used to explain the present application and are not used to limit the present application.

[0016] The optical transmission network OTN inherits the advantages of the Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) network and the Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWM) network, and has good advantages in large capacity and management control mechanism. OTN can realize the functions of transmission, switching, multiplexing and other functions of signals with various granularities. In addition, OTN can support many upper layer services and protocols, and is an important network construction technology that bears optical networks.

[0017] OTN aims to improve the transmission capacity of a single optical fiber by combining different wavelengths and transmitting them simultaneously in one specific optical fiber. When the combined signals of different wavelengths pass through a station, they are power-amplified by the optical amplifier equipment of the station, which increases the transmission distance. The optical amplifier equipment amplifies the signal and the noise signal. Therefore, when a signal is amplified by multiple optical amplifier equipment, the noise signal becomes very large. In order to monitor and control the quality of the signal of the station, optical performance monitoring is introduced for the optical communication network, where OSNR is one of the very important indicators in optical performance detection.

[0018] OSNR is the ratio of optical signal power to noise power in an effective bandwidth of 0.1 nm. By selecting a specific wavelength channel at a station and measuring it, the optical signal power and noise power output by the optical amplifier equipment of the wavelength channel at that station can be obtained, and the channel quality of the wavelength channel between stations can be evaluated. As can be seen from this, in order to obtain the optical signal power and noise power, it is necessary to monitor the service optical signal in the service path, but it is not possible to monitor the idle channel without the service optical signal. Meanwhile, in order to ensure the survivability of the service, OTN reserves a large amount of idle optical path resources to provide recovery path resources for the faulty service. Because the optical performance index of the idle channel cannot be predicted in advance, when the service actually fails and switches to these idle channels, the service cannot be successfully restored, and the service is interrupted for a long time, which seriously affects the service quality of the network.

[0019] Based on this, an embodiment of the present application provides an optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method, which is a detection means for detecting the OSNR of an idle measurement target channel. By changing the waveform of the detection light source, the signal power and noise power of the measurement target channel are respectively detected at the receiving station by using optical performance monitoring technology, and the OSNR of the measurement target channel is calculated, thereby realizing the optical performance monitoring of the idle channel.

[0020] Referring to Fig. 1, an embodiment of the present application provides an optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method applied to an optical signal-to-noise ratio detection system. The optical signal-to-noise ratio detection system includes a detection light source disposed in a sending station, and an output terminal of the detection light source is connected to a line side port of the sending station. The optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method includes, but is not limited to, the following steps S100, S200, S300, and S400.

[0021] Step S100: The detection light source is adjusted to a spontaneous emission state.

[0022] To measure the OSNR of an idle channel, the embodiment of the present application connects an additional detection light source to the channel to be measured and provides an optical signal for measurement. Since the detection light source does not need to actually bear a service, it generates a noise signal using a spontaneous emission state and performs OSNR measurement using this noise signal as an initial optical signal.

[0023] The idle channel corresponds to an idle port of the current station in terms of hardware. This idle port may be an uplink port or loopback port of an optical switch (e.g., an optical filter), an input port or loopback port of a combiner such as a coupling device, an uplink port of a device such as an arrayed waveguide grating (AWG), etc. In addition, the fact that an idle channel does not bear a service corresponding to a certain wavelength channel in an optical path indicates that the wavelength channel does not bear a service only during monitoring, and may also indicate that the wavelength channel is not scheduled to bear a service and is completely idle. The judgment regarding an idle channel may be determined by a detector based on the actual service activation situation, or may be automatically determined by detecting whether a service message exists on the wavelength channel, but is not limited here.

[0024] The detection light source may be composed of different hardware. For example, the detection light source directly adopts a tunable laser light source to generate a laser with a central wavelength corresponding to the channel to be measured, but the tunable laser light source can only generate a laser with one central wavelength at a time, and there is a certain limitation. For example, the detection light source is composed of a spontaneous emission source and an optical filter, and the output terminal of the spontaneous emission source is connected to the input terminal of the optical filter, and the output terminal of the optical filter is connected to the idle port. Here, the spontaneous emission source may adopt an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA). In this case, the input terminal of the EDFA is not connected to the input source, and the EDFA is put into a spontaneous emission (ASE: Amplified Spontaneous Emission) state, so that a noise source covering multiple channels can be obtained. The optical filter may be various combiners or splitters with a filter function, such as AWG, WSS, etc., and is used for wavelength channel selection of the EDFA.

[0025] Step S200: According to the spectral bandwidth of the channel to be measured, the signal width of the detection light source is adjusted to a first width to obtain the channel total power at the optical performance monitoring point of the receiving station. The channel to be measured is an idle channel from the line side port of the transmitting station to the line side port of the receiving station. The first width is equal to or less than the spectral bandwidth of the channel to be measured.

[0026] Step S300: Adjust the signal width of the detection light source to a second width to obtain the noise power at the optical performance monitoring point of the receiving station. The second width is smaller than the first width. The center frequency of the signal corresponding to the second width is shifted from the center frequency of the signal corresponding to the first width.

[0027] In the embodiment of the present application, both ends of the measurement target channel are limited to the line side port of the transmitting station and the line side port of the receiving station, respectively, and do not include the uplink / downlink of the equipment side service of the transmitting station and the uplink / downlink of the equipment side service of the receiving station. Therefore, the OSNR of the measurement target channel in the embodiment of the present application substantially means the OSNR between the optical performance monitoring points of both stations.

[0028] Generally, an optical signal can only collect the power of the current channel at the optical performance detection point, but in order to obtain the OSNR of the channel to be measured, the embodiment of the present application measures the power of the current channel at both sides of the receiving station by changing the waveform of the detection light source, and calculates the signal optical power of the channel to be measured. Specifically, in step S200, the signal width of the detection light source is set to a first width according to the spectral width of the channel to be measured, with the aim that the detection light source fills the spectral width corresponding to the channel to be measured with an optical signal of the corresponding width. This makes the scene of measuring the channel total power at the optical performance monitoring point of the receiving station closer to the scene when the channel to be measured is actually carrying a service, and makes it easier to change the signal width of the detection light source to obtain the noise power later. Next, in step S300, the signal width of the detection light source is changed to a second width. Since the second width is smaller than the first width, the operation of step S300 effectively narrows the detection light source so that the channel to be measured has an optical signal only in a certain width, and the remaining wavelength channels other than this width are blocked by the optical filter. In this way, after the optical signal of the second width passes through each amplifier device of the channel to be measured and reaches the receiving station, the remaining wavelength channels will exhibit a noise floor, and the power of these wavelength channels measured at the optical performance monitoring point of the receiving station will be noise power, which may be seen in Figures 2 and 3, which are waveform patterns of the first width and the second width, respectively.

[0029] The first width may be set to be equal to the spectral width of the channel to be measured, so that the detection light source can fill the entire channel to be measured and the resulting channel total power can be more accurate. The first width may be set slightly smaller than the spectral width of the channel to be measured, in which case the first width is determined based on an empirical value as a reference for measuring the OSNR later. The second width may be set according to the network architecture in which the channel to be measured is located. For example, in a 100G optical transmission system in which the interval between two adjacent channels used to bear a service is 100 GHz and the spectral width of the optical channel is 50 GHz, the optical filter may set the signal width to 12.5 GHz. In this case, an idle position of 37.5 GHz out of 50 GHz may be used to measure the noise floor, and a width of 12.5 GHz may be selected to measure the noise power. In order to measure the OSNR by the noise power, the center frequency of the signal at the second width is shifted from the center frequency of the signal at the first width, so that the channel corresponding to the center frequency of the signal at the first width is monitored for data at the optical performance monitoring point.

[0030] The optical performance monitoring point may be realized using an optical performance monitoring module (OPM). With the maturity of reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) technology, OPM is widely applied to online channel optical power monitoring, facilitating the measurement of optical performance indicators such as OSNR. OPM can be implemented in various ways, for example, based on a diffractive structure, composed of a bulk grating and an array detector, or based on an interferometric structure, employing tunable optical filter (TOF) technology, but not limited thereto.

[0031] Step S400: The optical signal-to-noise ratio of the channel to be measured is determined from the channel total power and the noise power.

[0032] After obtaining the channel total power and noise power in the above steps S200 and S300, the signal light power can be obtained by subtracting the two. The OSNR of the measurement target channel can be obtained by calculating the signal light power, the noise power, and the corresponding OSNR.

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[0034] Through the above steps, a detection light source is provided for an idle measurement target channel, and the signal width of the detection light source is changed to obtain the channel total power and noise power of the measurement target channel at the optical performance detection point of the receiving station, thereby calculating the OSNR of the measurement target channel. Here, a large value may be selected as the spectral width of the measurement target channel, for example, even if the width is 50 GHz, the embodiment of the present application can provide a detection light that can satisfy the spectral width, and in fact, the environment in which the measurement target channel bears a service in a multi-wavelength environment is simulated, so the measured OSNR is more suitable for the actual service scene.

[0035] Note that the OSNR calculated by the above formula does not necessarily represent the OSNR value of the channel to be measured. Depending on the position where the detection light source is connected at the receiving station, the obtained OSNR may include the OSNR from the equipment uplink port to the line side port. In this case, the OSNR of the channel to be measured can only be obtained by subtracting the OSNR from the equipment uplink port to the line side port from the OSNR calculated by the above formula. Since this is related to the position of the detection light source, the OSNR correction content of this part is explained in detail below for each position of the detection light source.

[0036] Based on the above overall form, the power of the spontaneous emission source may be adjusted so as to be more suitable for the actual business scene of the channel to be measured. With reference to FIG. 4, specifically, may be realized by the following steps:

[0037] Step S110: The spontaneous emission source is set to a spontaneous emission state.

[0038] Step S120: The spontaneous emission power of the spontaneous emission source is adjusted to be equal to the service access power of the channel to be measured.

[0039] The power of the spontaneous emission source in the ASE state is adjusted to be the same as the service access power, taking into consideration the power that the measurement target channel should set in the service bearing scene, i.e., the service access power. Thus, based on the power characteristics of the optical signal transmitted in the measurement target channel, the power received at that time is close to the power received by the measurement target channel in the service bearing scene at the receiving station. Therefore, calculating the OSNR from the power received at that time can accurately reflect the actual OSNR in the service bearing scene.

[0040] When the detection light source is arranged in the transmitting station and connected to the line side port of the transmitting station, there are two cases: direct connection port and non-direct connection port. The following describes each of these two connection methods in detail.

[0041] (1) When the output terminal of the detector light source is directly connected to the line side port of the transmitting station, the output terminal of the detector light source can be connected to the line side port of the transmitting station end-to-end through a single optical fiber. In this case, the detector light source does not pass through the equipment side port of the transmitting station.

[0042] In the above case, the calculation of OSNR in step S400 is realized by the following steps with reference to FIG.

[0043] Step S410: The signal light power of the channel to be measured is determined from the channel total power and the noise power.

[0044] Step S420: Determine the optical signal-to-noise ratio of the channel to be measured from the spectral bandwidth, the optical signal power, and the noise power of the channel to be measured.

[0045] First, the signal light power of the channel to be measured is determined. Since the total channel power detected at the receiving station is a superposition of the signal light power and the noise power, the signal light power can be obtained by simply subtracting the noise power from the total channel power. Next, the OSNR of the channel to be measured can be obtained using the above OSNR calculation formula.

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[0048] (2) If the output terminal of the detection light source is connected to the line side port of the transmitting station via the uplink port of the transmitting station, this indicates that there is no idle port on the line side at that time, but there is an idle uplink port on the equipment side, and the detection light source can be directly connected to that uplink port.

[0049] In the above case, the calculation of the OSNR in step S400 is realized by the following steps with reference to FIG.

[0050] Step S430: The signal light power of the channel to be measured is determined from the channel total power and the noise power.

[0051] Step S440: Obtain an uplink optical signal-to-noise ratio from the equipment side uplink port of the sending station to the line side port of the sending station.

[0052] Step S450: Determine the optical signal-to-noise ratio of the channel to be measured based on the spectral bandwidth of the channel to be measured, the uplink optical signal-to-noise ratio, the signal optical power, and the noise power.

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[0058] On the other hand, between the uplink port and the line side port, multiple components such as, for example, several amplifier devices, several optical filters, etc. may pass through. Therefore, the OSNR from the equipment side uplink port of the transmitting station to the line side port of the transmitting station may be composed of the OSNRs of multiple segments. Similarly, the OSNR from the line side port of the receiving station to the equipment side downlink of the receiving station may also be composed of the OSNRs of multiple segments. Specifically, it is determined according to the actual equipment connection method of the station.

[0059] As can be seen from the above two OSNR measurement scenes, all the detection light sources are arranged at the sending station and are directly or indirectly connected locally to the line side port of the sending station. However, it can be seen that in some cases, there is no idle port locally at the sending station, and it is necessary to measure the measurement target channel through the idle port of the remote station. Therefore, the embodiment of the present application also provides an optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method applied to an optical signal-to-noise ratio detection system. The optical signal-to-noise ratio detection system includes a detection light source arranged at the remote station, and an output terminal of the detection light source is connected to the line side port of the remote station. The optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method includes, but is not limited to, the following steps S500, S600, S700, and S800, as shown in FIG. 7.

[0060] Step S500: The detection light source is adjusted to a spontaneous emission state.

[0061] In the embodiment of the present application, the detection light source is disposed in a remote station having an idle port connected to the detection light source, and the idle port of the remote station is a line side port, which is connected to the line side port of the first station via an optical cable line. Similarly, the detection light source is put into a spontaneous emission state to obtain an optical signal covering multiple channels.

[0062] The detection light source in the embodiment of the present application may be composed of a spontaneous emission source whose output terminal is connected to the input terminal of the optical filter, and an optical filter whose output terminal is connected to the idle port. For what hardware devices the spontaneous emission source and the optical filter use, the description of step S100 may be referred to, and will not be repeated here.

[0063] Step S600: According to the spectral bandwidth of the channel to be measured, the signal width of the detection light source is adjusted to a first width to obtain a first channel total power at the optical performance monitoring point of the transmitting station and a second channel total power at the optical performance monitoring point of the receiving station. The channel to be measured is an idle channel from the line side port of the transmitting station to the line side port of the receiving station. The first width is equal to or less than the spectral bandwidth of the channel to be measured.

[0064] Step S700: Adjust the signal width of the detection light source to a second width to obtain a first noise power at the optical performance monitoring point of the sending station and a second noise power at the optical performance monitoring point of the receiving station. The second width is smaller than the first width. The center frequency of the signal corresponding to the second width is shifted from the center frequency of the signal corresponding to the first width.

[0065] Step S800: Determine the optical signal-to-noise ratio of the channel to be measured from the first channel total power, the second channel total power, the first noise power, and the second noise power.

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[0068] Referring to FIG. 8, the above calculation process can be performed by the following steps.

[0069] Step S810: Determine a first signal power from the line side port of the remote station to the line side port of the sending station from the first channel total power and the first noise power.

[0070] Step S820: Determine a second signal power from the line side port of the remote station to the line side port of the receiving station from the second channel total power and the second noise power.

[0071] Step S830: Determine an optical signal-to-noise ratio of the channel to be measured according to the spectral bandwidth, the first signal power, the first noise power, the second signal power, and the second noise power of the channel to be measured.

[0072] Here, the calculation method for determining the OSNR from the line side port of the remote station to the line side port of the sending station from the spectrum bandwidth of the channel to be measured, the first signal power, and the first noise power may refer to step S400. Similarly, the calculation method for determining the OSNR from the line side port of the remote station to the line side port of the receiving station from the spectrum bandwidth of the channel to be measured, the second signal power, and the second noise power may refer to step S400. Detailed calculations are not described here.

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[0075] From the uplink port to the line side port, multiple components such as, for example, several amplifier devices, several optical filters, etc. may be passed through. Therefore, the OSNR from the equipment side uplink port of the transmitting station to the line side port of the transmitting station may be composed of the OSNRs of multiple segments. Similarly, the OSNR from the line side port of the receiving station to the equipment side downlink of the receiving station may also be composed of the OSNRs of multiple segments. Specifically, it is determined according to the actual equipment connection method of the station.

[0076] The method for measuring OSNR at a remote station according to the embodiment of the present application realizes measurement of a channel to be measured from a remote station, and solves the problem that the station does not have an idle port and therefore cannot measure the OSNR of the channel to be measured.

[0077] Whether the OSNR of the channel to be measured is measured at a local station or at a remote station, the signal light power of the channel to be measured can be obtained by adjusting the width of the detection light source to obtain the total channel power and noise power of the channel to be measured, respectively. This allows the OSNR of the channel to be calculated, realizing optical performance monitoring of idle service paths and greatly improving the network maintenance and management capabilities.

[0078] The optical signal-to-noise ratio detecting method according to the embodiment of the present application will be described below using three actual examples.

[0079] Example 1: Measuring OSNR by directly connecting the local port Referring to the network line configuration diagram shown in Fig. 9, in this example, it is necessary to measure the OSNR of an idle channel from transmitting station A through pass-through station B to receiving station C. In terms of hardware, an EDFA type optical amplifier OA and a wavelength selective switch are used as the detection light source, and are shown as OA#41 and WSS#41 in Fig. 9, respectively. WSS#41 is directly connected to the line side port of transmitting station A.

[0080] The center frequency of the idle measurement channel was set to 192.1 THz and the width to 50 GHz.

[0081] The D2 port of WSS #41 is connected to the A2 port of WSS #21, and a detection light source is connected from WSS #21 in the line side direction #2.

[0082] Each optical amplifier and wavelength selective switch of the channel to be measured is turned on, and for WSS#51 and WSS#52, light with a center frequency of 192.1 THz and a bandwidth of 50 GHz is assigned to the connected ports.

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[0088] Example 2: Measuring OSNR by directly connecting the local port Referring to the network line configuration diagram shown in Figure 10, in Example 2, compared to Example 1, there is no idle port on the line side of the transmitting station A, but there is an idle port on the equipment side uplink port, so the difference is that the detection light source is connected to the idle port of the equipment side uplink port of the transmitting station A. In terms of hardware, an EDFA type optical amplifier OA and a wavelength selective switch are similarly used as the detection light source, and are shown as OA#41 and WSS#41 respectively in Figure 10, and the D1 port of WSS#41 is connected to the equipment side uplink port of the transmitting station A, i.e., the A3 port of WSS#32.

[0089] The center frequency of the idle measurement channel was set to 192.1 THz and the width to 50 GHz.

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[0092] Example 3: Measuring OSNR with a remote port connection Referring to the network line configuration diagram shown in Figure 11, the third example differs from the first example in that the detection light source in remote station D is connected to an idle port, which is the line side port of remote station D. Similarly, the OSNR of the idle channel is measured from transmitting station A to pass-through station B to receiving station C. In terms of hardware, an EDFA type optical amplifier OA and a wavelength selective switch are used as the detection light source, and are shown as OA#41 and WSS#41, respectively, in Figure 11. WSS#41 is directly connected to the line side port of remote station D.

[0093] The center frequency of the idle measurement channel was set to 192.1 THz and the width to 50 GHz.

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[0097] An embodiment of the present application also provides an optical signal to noise ratio detection system, the optical signal to noise ratio detection system including at least one processor and a memory in communication with the at least one processor, the memory storing instructions executable by the at least one processor, the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, causing the at least one processor to perform the optical signal to noise ratio detection method described above.

[0098] In the illustrated embodiment, the control processor and the memory of the optical signal-to-noise ratio detection system are connected via a bus. The memory may be used as a non-transient computer-readable storage medium to store non-transient software programs and non-transient computer-executable programs. In addition, the memory may include high-speed random access memory, and may also include non-transient memory such as at least one magnetic disk memory, flash memory device, or other non-transient solid-state memory device. In some embodiments, the memory may include memory located remotely with respect to the control processor, which may be connected to the optical signal-to-noise ratio detection system via a network. Examples of the above networks include, but are not limited to, the Internet, a corporate intranet, a local area network, a mobile communication network, and combinations thereof.

[0099] The above configurations are not intended to be limiting of the optical signal-to-noise ratio detection system, which may include more or fewer components, combine some components, or have different component arrangements.

[0100] The embodiments of the present application also provide a computer-readable storage medium, which stores computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more control processors, such as the control processor, cause the one or more control processors to perform the optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method in the method embodiments, such as method steps S100-S400 of FIG. 1, method steps S110-S120 of FIG. 4, method steps S410-S420 of FIG. 5, method steps S430-S450 of FIG. 6, method steps S500-S800 of FIG. 7, and method steps S810 and S830 of FIG. 8, as described above.

[0101] The above-described device embodiments are merely schematic, and the units described as separate components may or may not be physically separated, i.e., located in one place or distributed across multiple network units. Some or all of these modules may be selected to achieve the objectives of the embodiments according to actual needs.

[0102] All or a part of the steps in the methods and systems disclosed above may be implemented as software, firmware, hardware, and appropriate combinations thereof. Some or all of the physical components may be implemented as software executed by a processor, such as a central processing unit, digital signal processor, microprocessor, or as hardware, or as an integrated circuit, such as an application specific integrated circuit. Such software may be distributed on a computer readable medium, which may include computer storage media (or non-transitory media) and communication media (or transitory media). The term computer storage media includes volatile and non-volatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storing information (e.g., computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data). Computer storage media includes, but is not limited to, RAM, ROM, EEPROM, flash memory or other memory technology, CD-ROM, digital versatile disk (DVD) or other optical disk storage, magnetic cartridge, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage device, or any other medium that can be used to store the desired information and that can be accessed by a computer. Additionally, communication media typically includes computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave or other transmission mechanism and may include any information delivery media.

[0103] Although the preferred embodiments of the present application have been specifically described above, the present application is not limited to the above embodiments. Those skilled in the art may make various equivalent modifications or replacements without violating the scope of the present application, and all of these equivalent modifications or replacements are within the scope of the claims of the present application.

Claims

1. An optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method applied to an optical signal-to-noise ratio detection system, the optical signal-to-noise ratio detection system including a detection light source disposed in a transmitting station, an output terminal of the detection light source being connected to a line side port of the transmitting station; The optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method includes: tuning the detection light source to a spontaneous emission state; a step of adjusting a signal width of the detection light source to a first width according to a spectral bandwidth of a channel to be measured, to obtain a channel total power at an optical performance monitoring point of a receiving station, the channel to be measured being an idle channel from a line side port of the transmitting station to a line side port of the receiving station, and the first width being equal to or less than the spectral bandwidth of the channel to be measured; adjusting a signal width of the detection light source to a second width to obtain noise power at an optical performance monitoring point of the receiving station, the second width being smaller than the first width, and a center frequency of the signal corresponding to the second width being shifted from a center frequency of the signal corresponding to the first width; determining an optical signal-to-noise ratio of the channel to be measured from the total channel power and the noise power.

2. 2. The optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method of claim 1, wherein the detection light source includes a spontaneous emission source and an optical filter, an output terminal of the spontaneous emission source being connected to an input terminal of the optical filter.

3. 3. The method of claim 2, wherein the spontaneous emission source is an erbium doped fiber amplifier and the optical filter is a wavelength selective switch.

4. The step of adjusting the detection light source to a spontaneous emission state comprises: placing the spontaneous emission source in a spontaneous emission state; 4. The method of claim 3, further comprising the step of: adjusting the spontaneous emission power of the spontaneous emission source to be equal to a service access power of a channel to be measured.

5. the output terminal of said detection light source is directly connected to a line side port of said transmitting station; determining an optical signal-to-noise ratio of the channel to be measured from the channel total power and the noise power, determining a signal light power of the channel to be measured from the channel total power and the noise power; and determining an optical signal-to-noise ratio of the channel to be measured from a spectral bandwidth of the channel to be measured, the signal optical power, and the noise power.

6. an output terminal of the detection light source is connected to a line side port of the transmitting station via an equipment side uplink port of the transmitting station; determining an optical signal-to-noise ratio of the channel to be measured from the channel total power and the noise power, determining a signal light power of the channel to be measured from the channel total power and the noise power; obtaining an uplink optical signal-to-noise ratio from an equipment-side uplink port of the sending station to a line-side port of the sending station; and determining an optical signal-to-noise ratio of the channel to be measured from a spectral bandwidth of the channel to be measured, the uplink optical signal-to-noise ratio, the signal optical power, and the noise power.

7. An optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method applied to an optical signal-to-noise ratio detection system, the optical signal-to-noise ratio detection system including a detection light source disposed in a remote station, an output terminal of the detection light source being connected to a line side port of the remote station; The optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method includes: tuning the detection light source to a spontaneous emission state; a step of adjusting a signal width of the detection light source to a first width according to a spectral bandwidth of a channel to be measured, and acquiring a first channel total power at an optical performance monitoring point of a transmitting station and a second channel total power at an optical performance monitoring point of a receiving station, the channel to be measured being an idle channel from a line side port of the transmitting station to a line side port of the receiving station, and the first width being equal to or less than the spectral bandwidth of the channel to be measured; a step of adjusting a signal width of the detection light source to a second width to obtain a first noise power at an optical performance monitoring point of the sending station and a second noise power at an optical performance monitoring point of the receiving station, the second width being smaller than the first width, and a center frequency of a signal corresponding to the second width being shifted from a center frequency of a signal corresponding to the first width; determining an optical signal-to-noise ratio of the channel to be measured from the first channel total power, the second channel total power, the first noise power, and the second noise power.

8. determining an optical signal-to-noise ratio of the channel to be measured from the first channel total power, the second channel total power, the first noise power, and the second noise power, determining a first signal power from the line side port of the remote station to the line side port of the sending station from the first channel total power and the first noise power; determining a second signal power from the line side port of the remote station to the line side port of the receiving station from the second channel total power and the second noise power; and determining an optical signal-to-noise ratio of the channel to be measured from a spectral bandwidth of the channel to be measured, the first signal power, the first noise power, the second signal power, and the second noise power.

9. at least one processor; and a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; An optical signal to noise ratio detection system, wherein the memory stores instructions executable by the at least one processor, which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform the optical signal to noise ratio detection method described in any one of claims 1 to 6 or the optical signal to noise ratio detection method described in any one of claims 7 to 8.

10. A computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon, A computer-readable storage medium, wherein the computer-executable instructions are for causing a computer to execute the optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method according to any one of claims 1 to 6 or the optical signal-to-noise ratio detection method according to any one of claims 7 to 8.

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