APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MONITORING STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PHASE NOISES, AND COHERENT OPTICAL COMMUNICATION RECEIVER

摘要

This invention relates to an apparatus and a method for monitoring statistical characteristics of phase noises, as well as to a coherent optical communication receiver. The apparatus for monitoring statistical 5 characteristics of phase noises comprises an argument calculating unit (203), for obtaining an argument of a signal input thereto; an unwrapping unit (204), for unwrapping the argument obtained by the argument calculating unit (203) to obtain a phase signal (205); a delaying unit (207), for delaying the phase signal; a differentiating unit (209), for obtaining a difference between a phase 10 signal currently obtained by the unwrapping unit (204) and a phase signal delayed by the delaying unit (207); a modulus squaring unit (210), for obtaining a square of the modulus of the difference; and an averaging unit (211), for averaging squares of moduli of a plurality of differences obtained by the modulus squaring unit (210) to obtain a mean-squared differential phase 15 (MSDP) value.