In order to identify and deal with optical path faults timely and accurately, and realize transparent and real-time network intelligent management, an optical channel performance analysis method based on cross recurrence plot theory is proposed for optical channel state performance monitoring. First, the method uses cross recurrence plot to visualize the state parameters of adjacent channels to analyze the dynamic characteristics of the channels. Then, the synchronization characteristics of the two sequential systems are quantified by quantitative analysis method. The simulation results show that the performance of optical channels has similar dynamic morphology with the state parameters of adjacent channels, which confirms their potential correlation characteristics.