Apparatus for measuring a filtering characteristic, pre-equalizer and communication equipment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017170902-A1
Application number	US-201615375714-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 12, 2016
Priority date	Dec 11, 2015
Publication date	Jun 15, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method and apparatus for measuring a filtering characteristic, pre-equalizer and communication equipment. The method includes: obtaining a receiving signal after two measurement signals of different spectral ranges pass through different filtering modules and are received at the same time at a receiving end; and determining a part of a filtering characteristic of a receiving end and a part of a joint response according to a nonoverlapped spectral part of the two signals in the spectrum of the receiving signal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An apparatus for measuring a filtering characteristic, including:
a first determining unit configured to one of determine a first part of a filtering characteristic of a receiving end and determine a first part of a joint response of the filtering characteristic of a transmitting end and the filtering characteristic of the receiving end, in a spectrum of a first receiving signal obtained after a first measurement signal and a second measurement signal pass through respective filtering modules, according to a nonoverlapped spectral part of the first measurement signal and the second measurement signal; a second determining unit configured to one of determine a second part of the filtering characteristic of the receiving end in the spectrum of a second receiving signal obtained after a third measurement signal and the second measurement signal pass through respective filtering modules, according to the nonoverlapped spectral part of the third measurement signal and the second measurement signal and determine the second part of the joint response of the filtering characteristic of the transmitting end and the filtering characteristic of the receiving end, in the spectrum of the second receiving signal obtained after a fourth measurement signal and the first measurement signal pass through respective filtering modules, according to the nonoverlapped spectral part of the fourth measurement signal and the first measurement signal; and a first processing unit configured to one of determine the filtering characteristic of the receiving end according to the first part of the filtering characteristic and the second part of the filtering characteristic and determine the joint response of the filtering characteristic of the receiving end and the filtering characteristic of the transmitting end according to the first part of the joint response and the second part of the joint response; wherein, the filtering modules through which the first measurement signal and the third measurement signal pass include a transmitting end filtering module and a receiving end filtering module, a filtering module through which the second measurement signal and the fourth measurement signal pass include the transmitting end filtering module, spectral ranges of the first measurement signal and the second measurement signal are different, and one of frequencies of the third measurement signal and the first measurement signal are complementary and frequencies of the fourth measurement signal and the second measurement signal are complementary; and frequency complementarity denotes that spectral ranges of two measurement signals cover all a measurement range of the filtering characteristic, and the two measurement signals have an overlapped frequency point; and the first measurement signal, the second measurement signal, the third measurement signal and the fourth measurement signal are continuous signals.

2 . The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the first determining unit includes:
a first measuring unit configured to calculate a first receiving signal power spectral density of the first receiving signal;
a first extracting unit configured to extract a first power spectral density of the nonoverlapped spectral part of the first measurement signal and the second measurement signal from the spectrum of the first receiving signal power spectral density of the first receiving signal; and
a first obtaining unit configured to obtain the first part of the filtering characteristic of the receiving end according to the first power spectral density; and the second determining unit includes:
a second measuring unit configured to calculate a second receiving signal power spectral density of the second receiving signal;
a second extracting unit configured to extract a second power spectral density of the nonoverlapped spectral part of the third measurement signal and the second measurement signal from the spectrum of the power spectral density of the second receiving signal; and
a second obtaining unit configured to obtain the second part of the filtering characteristic of the receiving end according to the second receiving signal second power spectral density.

3 . The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first processing unit includes:
a first judging unit configured to judge whether responses of the first part of the filtering characteristic and the second part of the filtering characteristic are identical at the overlapped frequency point; and a first combining unit configured to combine the first part of the filtering characteristic and the second part of the filtering characteristic when a result of judgment of the first judging unit is yes to obtain a consecutive filtering characteristic; and when the result of judgment of the first judging unit is no, the first processing unit further includes: a first adjusting unit configured to adjust the responses of the first part of the filtering characteristic and the second part of the filtering characteristic at the overlapped frequency point to be identical; and the first combining unit is further configured to combine an adjusted first part of the filtering characteristic and second part of the filtering characteristic to obtain the consecutive filtering characteristic.

4 . The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the first determining unit further includes:
a first removing unit configured to remove a second measurement signal power spectral density of the second measurement signal from the first power spectral density extracted by the first extracting unit when the second measurement signal has a non flat power spectral density; and
the first obtaining unit determines the first part of the filtering characteristic according to a result of processing of the first removing unit; and
the second determining unit further includes:
a second removing unit configured to remove the second measurement signal power spectral density of the second measurement signal from the second power spectral density extracted by the second extracting unit when the second measurement signal has the non flat power spectral density; and
the second obtaining unit determines the second part of the filtering characteristic according to the result of processing of the second removing unit.

5 . The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the apparatus further includes:
a third determining unit configured to determine the first part of the joint response according to an overlapped spectral part of the first measurement signal and the second measurement signal in the spectrum of the power spectral density of the first receiving signal; a fourth determining unit configured to determine the second part of the joint response according to the overlapped spectral part of the third measurement signal and the second measurement signal in the spectrum of the power spectral density of the second receiving signal; and a second processing unit configured to determine the joint response according to the first part of the joint response and the second part of the joint response.

6 . The apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein
the third determining unit includes:
a third extracting unit configured to extract a third power spectral density of the overlapped spectral part of the first measurement signal and the second measurement signal from the spectrum of the power spectral density of the first receiving signal; and
a third obtaining unit configured to obtain the first part of the joint response according to the third power spectral density; and
the fourth determining unit includes:
a fourth extracting unit configured to extract a fourth power spectral density of the overlapped spectral part of the third measurement signal and the second measurement

Assignees

• Fujitsu Ltd

Inventors

• Fan Yangyang
• Tao Zhenning
• Dou Liang

Classifications

• H04L25/03878

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• H04B10/25073 Primary

  using spectral equalisation, e.g. spectral filtering · CPC title

• H04B10/58

  Compensation for non-linear transmitter output · CPC title

• H04B10/0731

  Testing or characterisation of optical devices, e.g. amplifiers · CPC title

• H04B10/07955

  Monitoring or measuring power · CPC title