The present invention relates to the technical field of
optical communication. Disclosed are a method for calibrating
crosstalk between channels of a coherent
transmitter and
receiver, an apparatus, and a
system. The method comprises: a coherent
transmitter loads generated auxiliary calibration signals on four channels of the coherent
transmitter and sends same to a coherent
receiver, the generated auxiliary calibration signals being multi-carrier signals which are orthogonal to one another between channels and the
subcarrier frequency amplitudes of which increase as frequency increases; and the coherent transmitter receives
crosstalk calibration issued by the coherent
receiver, performs frequency-dependent
crosstalk compensation on the basis of the crosstalk calibration, and sends a compensated calibration service
signal to the coherent receiver, the crosstalk calibration being a crosstalk value obtained by the coherent receiver performing crosstalk angle reconstruction-based frequency-dependent
crosstalk measurement on the basis of the auxiliary calibration signals. The present invention can solve the technical problems that the existing inter-channel crosstalk calibration technology has
high complexity and poor accuracy and cannot be applied to coherent optical modules having different rates and modulation formats, and meets actual application requirements.