Detection and characterization of laser clipping within communication devices

摘要

Detection and characterization of laser clipping within communication devices. Identification of one or more harmonics associated with a fundamental frequency by which signaling is effectuated within the communication system for laser clipping identification. Appropriate spectral signal analysis is made to identify the presence of characteristic(s) (e.g., energy, amplitude, phase, and/or other characteristic(s)), if any, at one or more harmonic frequencies within a received signal. Appropriate time correlation is performed to distinguish whether or not characteristic(s) associated with at one or more of these harmonic bands is a result of laser clipping or from some other source (e.g., such as other signals within a communication system that happened to reside at those respective harmonic bands). Such appropriate identified correlation between characteristic(s) corresponding to a fundamental frequency band of the communication signal and characteristic(s) corresponding to one or more harmonics (e.g., of that fundamental frequency band) indicates laser clipping.

主权项

1. An apparatus comprising:
an input configured to receive a communication signal from a communication network that includes at least one laser implemented therein to effectuate signaling; and a processor configured to:
analyze spectral content of the communication signal;generate, based on historical correlation between at least one characteristic corresponding to a fundamental frequency band of the communication signal and at least one characteristic corresponding to at least one harmonic of the communication signal when the at least one characteristic corresponding to the fundamental frequency band of the communication signal is detected, a histogram corresponding to a plurality of clipping events of the at least one laser;identify clipping of the at least one laser based on the histogram and based on current correlation between the at least one characteristic corresponding to the fundamental frequency band of the communication signal and the at least one characteristic corresponding to the at least one harmonic of the communication signal and also based on spectral content analysis of the communication signal; andanalyze the at least one characteristic corresponding to the at least one harmonic of the communication signal when detecting the at least one characteristic corresponding to the fundamental frequency band of the communication signal to determine at least one of the historical correlation or the current correlation.