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20-03-2006 дата публикации

ИНТЕГРАЛЬНАЯ ОПТИЧЕСКАЯ СХЕМА, ИМЕЮЩАЯ ВСТРОЕННУЮ УПОРЯДОЧЕННУЮ ВОЛНОВОДНУЮ РЕШЕТКУ, И СИСТЕМА ОПТИЧЕСКОЙ СЕТИ

Номер: RU2272308C2
Принадлежит: ИНТЕЛ КОРПОРЕЙШН (US)

Интегральная оптическая схема содержит группу оптических усилителей, сформированную в интегральной оптической схеме, и упорядоченную волноводную решетку, сформированную в интегральной оптической схеме и подключенную к группе оптических усилителей, группу волноводных элементов, соединенных с выходами указанной группы оптических усилителей, при этом указанная упорядоченная волноводная решетка имеет звездообразный ответвитель, соединенный с группой волноводных элементов. При этом группа оптических усилителей и упорядоченная волноводная решетка выполнены на основе оксида кремния. Технический результат - повышение мощности оптического сигнала, простота и дешивизна установки сети. 2 н. и 11 з.п. ф-лы, 7 ил.

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10-04-2006 дата публикации

СПОСОБ ВЫРАВНИВАНИЯ МОЩНОСТИ В СИСТЕМЕ ПЛОТНОГО УПЛОТНЕНИЯ КАНАЛОВ СВЯЗИ С РАЗДЕЛЕНИЕМ ПО ДЛИНЕ ВОЛНЫ

Номер: RU2273957C2

Изобретение относится к технике оптической связи. Технический результат состоит в определении характеристической кривой потерь, которую должен иметь фильтр GFF, что эффективно гарантирует выравнивание оптической мощности каждого канала и обеспечивает однородность передающей линии связи для всей системы и дальнейшее улучшение свойств выравнивания оптической мощности системы по каналам. Для этого в способе измеряют и рассчитывают характеристическую кривую спектра усиления блока оптического усилителя и характеристическую кривую спектра потерь устройства, вызывающего потери на соответствующих длинах волн в системе DWDM; вычитают характеристическую кривую спектра потерь из характеристической кривой спектра усиления и затем используют дополняющую кривую, полученную с помощью разностной кривой, в качестве заданной характеристической кривой потерь для выравнивающего усиление фильтра (GFF) устанавливают фильтр GFF, имеющий характеристическую кривую потерь, совпадающую с заданной характеристической ...

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20-05-2014 дата публикации

СОВМЕСТНО ИСПОЛЬЗУЕМЫЙ КАНАЛ СИГНАЛИЗАЦИИ

Номер: RU2516866C2

Изобретение относится к технике связи и может использоваться в системе связи с многостанционным доступом с ортогональным частотным разделением каналов (OFDMA). Технический результат состоит в увеличении пропускной способности канала передачи Для этого используется канал сигнализации для предоставления сообщения сигнализации, подтверждения приема и регулирования мощности на терминалы доступа в пределах системы. Совместно используемый канал сигнализации назначается на предварительно заданное число поднесущих в пределах любого цикла. Назначение предварительно заданного числа поднесущих для совместно используемого канала сигнализации устанавливает фиксированные затраты в полосе пропускания для канала. Фактические поднесущие, назначенные для канала, периодически меняются и меняются согласно предварительно заданному графику скачкообразной перестройки частоты. Величина мощности сигнала, распределенной каналу сигнализации, изменяется посимвольно в зависимости от требований по мощности канала связи ...

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20-10-1999 дата публикации

ОПТИЧЕСКАЯ СИСТЕМА СВЯЗИ, ОПТИЧЕСКИЙ УСИЛИТЕЛЬ И СПОСОБ ПЕРЕДАЧИ ОПТИЧЕСКИХ СИГНАЛОВ ПО ОПТИЧЕСКОЙ ЛИНИИ СВЯЗИ

Номер: RU2140131C1

Изобретение относится к оптической системе связи. Технический результат состоит в создании линии передачи с широкой рабочей полосой при уровнях спонтанного излучения, сравнимых с уровнем сигнала. Оптическая система связи включают в себя средство, предназначенное для генерирования оптических сигналов, различных длин волн, волоконно-оптическую линию со средством усиления, предварительный усилитель и средство приема, в которой предварительный усилитель содержит оптический волновод, легированный редкоземельным материалом, средство дифференциального ослабления, расположенное в первом положении вдоль легированного волокна, обеспечивающее ослабление в полосе сигналов, превышающее ослабление на длине волны накачки, и средство фильтрации, расположенное во втором положении и предназначенное для ослабления на величину, превышающую заданный минимум, спонтанного излучения в полосе длин волн, прилегающей к полосе сигналов. 4 с. и 59 з.п.ф-лы, 16 ил.

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20-11-2000 дата публикации

ОПТИЧЕСКАЯ СИСТЕМА СВЯЗИ, ВОЛОКОННО-ОПТИЧЕСКИЙ УСИЛИТЕЛЬ И СПОСОБ ОПРЕДЕЛЕНИЯ ДЛИНЫ ОПТИЧЕСКОГО АКТИВНОГО ВОЛОКНА

Номер: RU2159509C2

Изобретение относится к оптическим системам связи с уплотнением по длинам волн. Технический результат состоит в повышении скорости передачи сигналов с уплотнением и обеспечении условий равномерного усиления в различных каналах. Оптическая система связи содержит в себе передающую станцию и принимающую станцию для оптических сигналов, соединенные одна с другой волоконно-оптической линией, включающей в себя оптические линейные усилители, имеющие легированное редкоземельным материалом активное волокно и соединенные последовательно, в которой передающая станция содержит в себе средство генерирования, предназначенное для вырабатывания сигналов на нескольких заранее заданных длинах волн, и средство переноса, предназначенное для переноса упомянутых сигналов в одну волоконно-оптическую линию, а упомянутая станция приема оптического сигнала содержит в себе средство выделения, предназначенное для выделения упомянутых сигналов, в которой по меньшей мере один из упомянутых оптических линейных усилителей ...

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20-12-2002 дата публикации

СПОСОБ ПЕРЕДАЧИ ДАННЫХ В СИСТЕМАХ СВЯЗИ

Номер: RU2001101418A
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... 1. Способ передачи данных в системах связи (300), каждая из которых содержит по меньшей мере один канал (10), включающий в себя передающее средство (20), приемное средство (40) и средство (30) переноса данных для переноса данных от передающего средства (20) к приемному средству (40), при этом способ отличается тем, что он содержит этапы: (a) комбинирования данных полезной нагрузки и дополнительных, служебных данных в передающем средстве (20) для формирования в нем суммированных данных (600) для передачи приемному средству (40), при этом суммированные данные (600) разделяются на кадроподобные структуры, в которых число дополнительных служебных информационных битов находится в фиксированном соотношении к числу информационных битов полезной нагрузки; (b) передачи суммированных данных (600) от передающего средства (20) к приемному средству (40) по средству переноса (30); (c) приема суммированных данных (600) на приемном средстве (40), декодирующем суммированные данные для отделения дополнительных ...

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20-01-2002 дата публикации

СИСТЕМА ПЕРЕДАЧИ СИГНАЛОВ

Номер: RU2000106109A
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... 1. Система передачи сигналов, имеющая множество УДВ оптических несущих частот, включающая множество оптических переключающих модулей, соединенных в кольцо, средство наличия на оптическом переключающем модуле для детектирования наличия или отсутствия каждой отдельной оптической несущей частоты; и средство реагирования на детектирование отсутствия оптической несущей частоты для регулирования кольцевого усиления этой оптической несущей частоты так, чтобы оно было меньше единицы. 2. Система по п. 1, в которой каждый оптический переключающий модуль включает мультиплексор каналов, а упомянутое средство для детектирования наличия или отсутствия оптической несущей частоты располагается во входном канальном тракте упомянутого мультиплексора. 3. Система по п. 2, в которой упомянутое средство для детектирования наличия или отсутствия оптической несущей частоты, располагается в каждом входном канальном тракте упомянутого мультиплексора. 4. Система по любому предыдущему пункту, в которой обеспечено ...

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10-02-2004 дата публикации

Система оптической св зи

Номер: RU2002115717A
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... 1. Система оптической связи, содержащая оптическую линию передачи, построенную путем объединения оптического волокна с положительной дисперсией, обладающего положительным значением дисперсии, и оптического волокна с отрицательной дисперсией, обладающего отрицательным значением дисперсии, в используемом диапазоне длины волны, отличающаяся тем, что значение дисперсии оптического волокна с положительной дисперсией больше или равно 5 пс/(нм•км) и меньше или равно 15 пс/(нм•км), и значения Д/Н (дисперсия/наклон) для оптического волокна с положительной дисперсией и оптического волокна с отрицательной дисперсией больше или равны 250 нм, причем значения Д/Н получают делением значений дисперсии соответствующих волокон на длине волны 1550 нм на градиент дисперсии. 2. Система оптической связи по п.1, отличающаяся тем, что дополнительно содержит компенсатор дисперсии, который компенсирует остаточную дисперсию оптической линии передачи. 3. Система оптической связи по п.1, отличающаяся тем, что дополнительно ...

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10-03-2009 дата публикации

ОКОНЕЧНОЕ УСТРОЙСТВО ОПТИЧЕСКОЙ СЕТИ СТОРОНЫ СТАНЦИИ, ОКОНЕЧНОЕ УСТРОЙСТВО ОПТИЧЕСКОЙ СЕТИ СТОРОНЫ АБОНЕНТА И СИСТЕМА ОПТИЧЕСКОЙ СВЯЗИ

Номер: RU2007132444A
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... 1. Оконечное устройство оптической сети стороны станции, в котором: к одному светоизлучающему блоку присоединены: первый блок обработки, который осуществляет процесс вывода оптического сигнала посредством указанного светоизлучающего блока на одной скорости передачи, и второй блок обработки, который осуществляет процесс вывода оптического сигнала посредством указанного светоизлучающего блока на другой скорости передачи. 2. Оконечное устройство оптической сети стороны станции по п.1, содержащее: блок управления тактом, который управляет первым блоком обработки и вторым блоком обработки посредством одинакового такта. 3. Оконечное устройство оптической сети стороны станции по п.2, содержащее: блок измерения расстояния, который измеряет расстояние до оконечного устройства оптической сети стороны абонента; и блок регулирования оптического вывода, который регулирует оптический вывод светоизлучающего блока на основании результата измерения, полученного посредством блока измерения расстояния. 4.

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20-12-2001 дата публикации

СИСТЕМА СВЯЗИ

Номер: RU2000103489A
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... 1. Система для проверки работы фильтра длины волны, содержащая фильтр длины волны, включающий первый избирательно отражающий элемент (ИОЭ) для отражения первого сигнала первой длины волны, и второй ИОЭ для отражения второго сигнала другой длины волны; указанная система также содержит средство проверки для проверки работы фильтра длины волны посредством детектирования сигнала, отражаемого определенным одним элементом из числа избирательно отражающих элементов. 2. Система по п. 1, в которой определенный один элемент из числа ИОЭ соотносят с полосой длины волны отражения, которая находится вне полосы данных, а другой элемент из числа ИОЭ соотносят с полосой длины волны отражения, которая находится в пределах полосы данных. 3. Система по любому одному из пп.1 и 2, в которой фильтр содержит регулирующее средство для регулирования длины волны, отражаемой первым ИОЭ, и длины волны, отражаемой вторым ИОЭ, в котором регулирование длины волны, отражаемой первым ИОЭ, обусловливает соответствующее ...

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27-06-1997 дата публикации

ОПТИЧЕСКОЕ УСТРОЙСТВО СВЯЗИ

Номер: RU95111133A
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Оптическое устройство связи для индивидуального по длинам волн сквозного соединения между входными и выходными волокнами с частотным уплотнением (WDM) при одновременно возможной конверсии длин волн, отличающееся тем, что индивидуальный по входным волокнам оптический расщепитель (S1, ..., Se) преобразует приходящий на соответствующем входном волокне частотно уплотненный (WDM) сигнал в a•m частотно уплотненных (WDM) сигналов, которые подводятся к a•m перестраиваемым оптическим фильтрам (DF), где a - число выходных волокон (А1, . . ., Аа) и m - число соответственно объединенных в мультиплексе длин волн на выходном волокне (А1, ..., Аа) длин волн (λ,...,λ), и что соответственно е соединенных с е входными волокнами (Е1, ..., Ее) перестраиваемых фильтров (DF), объединенных на стороне выхода через оптический комбинатор (Сl1, ..., Cm1, ..., Cla, ..., Cma), ведут к конвертору длин волн (Кl1, ..., Km1, ..., K1a, ..., Kma), который соединен с входом включенного перед выходным волокном (А1, ..., Аа ...

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20-09-1999 дата публикации

МУЛЬТИПЛЕКСОР И ДЕМУЛЬТИПЛЕКСОР МНОГОКРАТНОГО ОТРАЖЕНИЯ

Номер: RU97119180A
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... 1. Устройство для маршрутизации оптических сигналов в зависимости от их длин волн, включающее общий тракт для передачи нескольких сигналов различных длин волн, каждый из которых имеет заданное количество энергии, распределенной по полю моды, несколько отдельных трактов для раздельной передачи сигналов различных длин волн, формирователь разности длин оптических путей, имеющий множество промежуточных путей различной длины для соединения этих общего и отдельных трактов, причем указанный формирователь разности длин оптических путей содержит составной расщепитель луча для отклонения части энергии из множества мест поля моды для каждого из сигналов различных длин волн вдоль одного из промежуточных путей различной длины, отклонения части оставшейся энергии из множества мест поля моды для каждого из сигналов различных длин волн вдоль другого из промежуточных путей различной длины и продолжения отклонения последующих частей оставшейся энергии из множества мест поля моды для каждого из сигналов различных ...

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20-03-2004 дата публикации

СПОСОБ ПОЛУЧЕНИЯ ПОКАЗАТЕЛЯ ПРЕЛОМЛЕНИЯ В ОПТИЧЕСКОМ ВОЛОКНЕ (ВАРИАНТЫ)

Номер: RU2002119565A
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... 1. Способ получения показателя преломления в оптическом волокне, имеющем сердцевину, предусматривающий деформирование оптического волокна вдоль его продольной оси для обеспечения деформации, составляющей, по меньшей мере, 1%, и облучение оптического волокна при деформировании световым излучением для формирования структуры показателей преломления. 2. Способ по п.1, отличающийся тем, что световое излучение прикладывают с боковой поверхности оптического волокна в направлении, проходящем поперек продольной оси волокна. 3. Способ по п.2, отличающийся тем, что световым излучением является ультрафиолетовое излучение. 4. Способ по п.1, отличающийся тем, что световое излучение передают через оптическое волокно вдоль продольной оси. 5. Способ по п.4, отличающийся тем, что световое излучение имеет длину волны, составляющую, по меньшей мере, 275 нм. 6. Способ по п.2, отличающийся тем, что структуру образуют с помощью маски. 7. Способ по п.6, отличающийся тем, что структуру образуют с помощью пластиковой ...

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27-11-1996 дата публикации

МНОГОКАНАЛЬНАЯ ВОЛОКОННО-ОПТИЧЕСКАЯ СИСТЕМА СВЯЗИ

Номер: RU95102146A
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Каналы спектрального уплотнения в системах волоконно-оптической связи имеют разнос по частоте между каналами, который предотвращает существенное совпадение составляющих четырехволнового смещения с несущими волнами каналов. Вследствие этого возрастает пропускная способность системы связи.

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20-02-2008 дата публикации

СПОСОБ, УСТРОЙСТВО И СИСТЕМА ДЛЯ ОПТИЧЕСКОЙ СВЯЗИ

Номер: RU2006129496A
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... 1. Способ передачи данных, содержащий следующие операции: при передаче данных мультиплексируют и преобразовывают несколько низкоскоростных коммуникационных сигналов в оптический сигнал со скоростью передачи приблизительно 5 Гбит/с и передают оптический сигнал на узел назначения; при приеме данных преобразовывают принятый оптический сигнал со скоростью передачи приблизительно 5 Гбит/с в электрический сигнал и демультиплексируют электрический сигнал, чтобы получить несколько низкоскоростных коммуникационных сигналов. 2. Способ по п.1, в котором мультиплексирование поддерживает мультиплексирование с перемежением битов и демультиплексирование поддерживает демультиплексирование с перемежением битов или мультиплексирование поддерживает мультиплексирование с перемежением байтов и демультиплексирование поддерживает демультиплексирование с перемежением байтов. 3. Способ по п.1, в котором низкоскоростными коммуникационными сигналами являются четыре соответствующих Gigabit Ethernet (GE) сигнала или ...

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09-08-2007 дата публикации

Vorrichtung zur Färbung optischer Signale

Номер: DE0019627216B4
Принадлежит: FRANCE TELECOM

Vorrichtung zur Färbung optischer Signale, die Daten aufnimmt, die unterschiedliche Wellenlängen (λ0, λ1... λn) haben können, und die dazu geeignet ist, am Ausgang diese Daten mit einer der Empfangswellenlängen abzugeben, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß sie enthält: - einen Zirkulator (30); - wenigstens einen optischen Zweig, der einen Rückweisfilter (31), gefolgt von einem Wellenlängenwandler (32) enthält, und daß - der Zirkulator (30) einen Anschluß (1) für den Empfang von Datenpaketen unterschiedlicher Wellenlängen (λ0, λ1 ... λn), einen Anschluß (3) für die Abgabe von Datenpaketen ohne Änderung ihrer Wellenlänge und wenigstens einen weiteren Anschluß (2) für einen optischen Zweig aufweist, derart, daß jeder dieser Anschlüsse mit einem Rückweisfilter (31) verbunden ist, um die Datenpakete unterschiedlicher Wellenlängen aufzunehmen und in den Zirkulator (30) die von dem Rückweisfilter (31) reflektierten Pakete wieder einzuleiten; wobei der Wellenlängenwandler (32) am Ausgang jedes Rückweisfilters ...

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27-07-2006 дата публикации

Abstimmbare optische Einfüge-/Abzweigmethode und -apparat

Номер: DE0069535053D1
Автор: BERNARD GLANCE
Принадлежит: AT & T CORP, AT & T CORP.

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23-11-2006 дата публикации

Abstimmbare optische Einfüge-/Abzweigmethode und -apparat

Номер: DE0069535053T2
Принадлежит: AT & T CORP, AT & T CORP.

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23-08-2007 дата публикации

Zweistufiger Verstärker

Номер: DE0060307758T2
Принадлежит: ECI TELECOM LTD, ECI TELECOM LTD.

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30-11-2006 дата публикации

Optisches Übertragungssystem mit verbessertem Signal-zu-Rausch-Verhalten

Номер: DE0010112805B4
Принадлежит: SIEMENS AG

Optisches Übertragungssystem (OTS) mit verbessertem Signal-zu-Rausch-Verhalten für optische Wellenlängenmultiplex-(WDM)-Signale (os1 bis osM) mit einer optischen Faser (OF), bei dem mindestens ein Raman-Verstärker (RV) mit mehreren optischen Pumpquellen (P1 bis PM) zur Verstärkung der optischen WDM-Signale (os1 bis osM) in der optischen Faser (OF) vorgesehen ist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Leistungspegel der optischen WDM-Signale (os1 bis osM) am Anfang (I) der optischen Faser (OF) so eingestellt sind, daß die optischen WDM-Signale (os1 bis osM) in der optischen Faser (OF) zumindest annähernd gleiche minimale Leistungspegel (Pmin) aufweisen.

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07-12-2006 дата публикации

Vorrichtung zur Messung einer optischen Charakteristik

Номер: DE102006025122A1
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Eine optische Charakteristik-Messvorrichtung beinhaltet: DOLLAR A einen Lichtquellenabschnitt, der Wellenlängen von einem ersten Eingangslicht bzw. einem zweiten Eingangslicht überstreicht, wobei Frequenzen der ersten und zweiten Eingangslichter voneinander verschieden sind und polarisierte Zustände der ersten und zweiten Einganglichter zueinander senkrecht stehen, und das erste und zweite Eingangslicht ausgibt; DOLLAR A einen Interferenzabschnitt, welcher ein abgezweigtes Licht der ersten und zweiten Eingangslichter zu einem Messobjekt eingibt, Ausgangslicht von dem Messobjekt mit anderem abgezweigten Licht der ersten und zweiten Eingangslichter zur Interferenz bringt und eine Vielzahl von Interferenzlichtern ausgibt; DOLLAR A eine Vielzahl von lichtempfangenden Abschnitten, welche jeweils für die Interferenzlichter vorgesehen sind, zum Empfangen der jeweiligen Interferenzlichter und Ausgeben von Signalen gemäß den optischen Leistungen der jeweiligen Interferenzlichter DOLLAR A und einen ...

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03-01-2002 дата публикации

Verfahren zur Qualitäts-und Identitätskontrolle von Wellenlängenkanälen in optischen Übertragungsnetzen

Номер: DE0010024238A1
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Zur Qualitätssicherung der Datenübertragung muß die Güte der übertragenen Daten überprüft werden. Weiterhin ist die Kontrolle der Identität von Wellenlängenkanälen sowie die Übertragung von Netzmanagementinformationen erforderlich. DOLLAR A Erfindungsgemäß wird ein niederratiges Kontrollsignal einer Trägerfrequenz, die unmittelbar oberhalb der höchsten für die Übertragung relevanten Nutzsignalfrequenz liegt, aufmoduliert, in einem elektrischen Frequenzmultiplexverfahren dem Nutzsignal hinzugefügt und als Summensignal in das Übertragungsnetz eingekoppelt. DOLLAR A Das Kontrollsignal enthält Informationen für die Identitätskennzeichnung der Wellenlängenkanäle, für die Qualitätsbeurteilung sowie Netzmanagementinformationen. DOLLAR A Aus dem Summensignal wird nach Durchlaufen der Übertragungsstrecke das Kontrollsignal ausgekoppelt und bezüglich Informationsgehalt und Qualität ausgewertet. DOLLAR A Die Qualität wird mit üblichen Verfahren ermittelt. Weil die Degradationseffekte das Kontrollsignal ...

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16-02-2012 дата публикации

Master-Einheit, Remote-Einheit sowie Multiband-Übertragungssystem

Номер: DE102009052936B4
Принадлежит: ANDREW WIRELESS SYSTEMS GMBH

Master-Einheit (2, 2') zur Verteilung und Zusammenführung von Signalen mindestens eines drahtlosen Kommunikationsnetzes und mindestens eines digitalen Netzwerks, umfassend mindestens ein Mastermodem (5, 5', 6, 6'), eine Master-Uplink-Schnittstelle (8), eine Master-Downlink-Schnittstelle (9), einen Master-Downlink-Combiner (10), einen Master-Uplink-Splitter (7), einen Referenzfrequenzgeber (12) und eine Master-Übertragungseinheit (25) wobei das Mastermodem (5, 5', 6, 6') zur Kommunikation mit dem mindestens einen digitalen Netzwerk eingerichtet und mit dem Referenzfrequenzgeber (12) verbunden ist, wobei die Master-Downlink-Schn(8) zur Kommunikation mit einer Basisstation (BTS) des mindestens einen drahtlosen Kommunikationsnetzes eingerichtet sind, wobei der Master-Downlink-Combiner (10) und der Master-Uplink-Splitter (7) zur Verbindung mit mindestens einer Remote-Einheit (3, 3') eingerichtet sind, wobei in Downlink-Richtung (DL) Signalleitungen (ae) aus dem Master-Downlink-Combiner (10) ...

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07-10-1999 дата публикации

Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur optischen Verstärkung

Номер: DE0069604001D1
Принадлежит: NEC CORP, NEC CORP., TOKIO/TOKYO

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25-10-2007 дата публикации

Vorrichtung zur Verstärkungsregelung und optischer Verstärker mit Temperaturkompensierungsfunktion

Номер: DE0069935130T2
Автор: NODA HIDEKI, NODA, HIDEKI
Принадлежит: FUJITSU LTD, FUJITSU LTD.

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29-03-2007 дата публикации

Vorrichtung zur Verstärkungsregelung und optischer Verstärker mit Temperaturkompensierungsfunktion

Номер: DE0069935130D1
Автор: NODA HIDEKI, NODA, HIDEKI
Принадлежит: FUJITSU LTD, FUJITSU LTD.

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03-08-2006 дата публикации

Minimierung der Dispersion von faseroptischen Übertragungsstrecken

Номер: DE0069833463T2
Принадлежит: FUJITSU LTD, FUJITSU LTD., KAWASAKI

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17-02-1994 дата публикации

Optical broadband information transmission system for communications - transmits range of TV signals via multiplexing central station over optical line to subscriber units

Номер: DE0004226838A1
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An optical transmission system has a central unit (2) coupled over an optical fibre network (3) to a number of distributed units (4). The central unit includes a multiplexer (6) with its output connected to a voltage-to-optical converter (7). The multiplexer receives a number of TV signals and signals are relayed by optical amplifiers (8). The transmitted signals are received by units (10) having HDTV, TV and multi-medium equipment (12, 13, 14). The optical signals are passed through converters (11, 15). The multi-medium unit is a bidirectional communication unit and signals are passed via a coupler (17) and converters to a distribution stage (5). USE/ADVANTAGE- Allows bidirectional transfer over optical link. Can be used for compressed HDTV signals.

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27-07-2006 дата публикации

ABSTIMMBARER EINFÜGE-/AUSBLENDMULTIPLEXER

Номер: DE0069931939D1

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15-02-2007 дата публикации

VERWENDUNG VON POLARISATION ZUR UNTERSCHEIDUNG VON INFORMATIONEN

Номер: DE602004004151D1
Принадлежит: TELENOR ASA

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23-03-1978 дата публикации

OPTISCHES MULTIPLEX-UEBERTRAGUNGSSYSTEM

Номер: DE0002741849A1
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01-07-2010 дата публикации

Verfahren und Vorrichtung für das Verteilen von Paketen über parallele Kommunikationsverbindungen

Номер: DE0019950822B4

Verfahren zum Durchführen von Datenübertragungen auf Paketbasis, das auf einer Prozessoreinheit ausgeführt wird, die wirksam mit einer einzelnen Unterverbindung verbunden ist, um Daten zu empfangen, und mit zwei oder mehr Kommunikationsunterverbindungen, um Daten zu übertragen, wobei das Verfahren die folgenden Schritte umfasst: Empfangen (502) von Datenpaketen über die einzelne Unterverbindung; Trennen (504) der beiden oder mehreren Kommunikationsunterverbindungen in einen Satz von belegten Unterverbindungen und einen Satz von verfügbaren Unterverbindungen; wobei der Schritt des Trennens (504) weiter die folgenden Schritte umfasst: Ausbilden (606) einer Verzögerung, bis eine Unterverbindung im Satz verfügbarer Unterverbindungen zum Übertragen von Datenpaketen verfügbar ist; Bestimmen (604), welche Unterverbindungen im Satz der verfügbaren Unterverbindungen für die Übertragung von Datenpaketen verfügbar ist; Zuordnen einer Unterverbindung zum Satz der verfügbaren Unterverbindungen, wenn ...

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19-01-2006 дата публикации

OPTISCHES CWDM-SYSTEM

Номер: DE0060202766T2
Автор: BODEN LARS, BODEN, LARS

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14-06-2007 дата публикации

VERFAHREN ZUR LEISTUNGSREGELUNG IN EINEM OPTISCHEN KOMMUNIKATIONSSYSTEM

Номер: DE0060128269D1
Принадлежит: ERICSSON AB

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14-06-2007 дата публикации

Optisches Bauteil

Номер: DE0010234489B4

Optisches Bauteil mit: - einem ersten Eingang (15), über den optische Signale mit unterschiedlichen Wellenlängen λ1 bis λn empfangen werden, - einem Filter (11), der die optischen Signale mit den unterschiedlichen Wellenlängen λ1 bis λn von dem ersten Eingang (15) empfängt, ein optisches Signal mit einer ausgewählten Wellenlänge λ1 selektiv durchlässt und die optischen Signale mit den übrigen Wellenlängen λ2 bis λn reflektiert, - einer ersten Reflexionseinheit (13), die das von dem Filter (11) durchgelassene Signal der ausgewählten Wellenlänge λ1 empfängt und dieses durch das Filter (11) hindurch auf einen ersten Ausgang (16) zurückreflektiert, und mit - einem Reflektor (12), der die von dem Filter (11) reflektierten Signale mit den übrigen Wellenlängen λ2 bis λn empfängt und auf eine zweite Reflexionseinheit (14) richtet, die diese Signale über den Reflektor (12) und das Filter (11) auf einen zweiten Ausgang (17) zurückreflektiert.

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18-12-2008 дата публикации

Optisches Netzwerk mit Teilbandsperrung und Bypass

Номер: DE602004017546D1
Принадлежит: FUJITSU LTD, FUJITSU LTD.

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10-08-2006 дата публикации

Optical signal e.g. wavelength division multiplexing signal, transmission method for optical transmission system, involves adjusting group delay experienced by each optical signal, so that signals of different wavelength are de-correlated

Номер: DE102005002989A1
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The method involves transferring of optical signals of given bandwidth and different mean wavelength to a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) signal. Group delay experienced by each signal is adjusted depending on the wavelength for the signals within their bandwidth, such that the signals of different wavelength are de-correlated with respect to their bit phases and a group velocity dispersion is adjusted over their bandwidth. An independent claim is also included for an optical transmission system.

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23-02-2006 дата публикации

Signaling method for quick adjustment in the tilt of a wavelength multiplex signal uses pumping lasers feeding their pumping signals into fiber optical wave-guides

Номер: DE102005034417A1
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Inserted outside a tilt-correction/control pumping laser (KL) for Raman tilt control, an anti-pumping laser (AL) feeds an anti-pumping signal into a transmission/dispersion-compensating fiber optical wave-guide (FI). The AL has the function of degrading pumping energy in the KL along the FI, so as to limit the FI's effective length and facilitate quick tilt adjustment. An independent claim is also included for a system for quick adjustment in the tilt of a wavelength multiplex signal through pumping lasers that feed their pumping signals into fiber optical wave-guides.

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13-07-2006 дата публикации

AWG-(Arrayed Waveguide Grating)-Modul und Vorrichtung zur Überwachung eines Lichtsignals, die dieses verwendet

Номер: DE0010001388B4

AWG-(Arrayed Waveguide Grating)- Modul umfassend einen Eingangswellenleiter (100) zum Empfangen eines WDM-(Wavelength Division Multiplexed)- Lichtsignals über ein Lichtsignal-Übertragungsmedium, einen ersten Stemkoppler (110) zum Teilen der Leistung des von dem Eingangswellenleiter (100) empfangenen WDM-Lichtsignals und Übertragen der geteilten Lichtsignale zu den Wellenleitern einer AWG-Einheit (120), die AWG-Einheit (120) zum Verarbeiten der durch den ersten Stemkoppler (110) ausgegebenen geteilten Lichtsignale, so dass die geteilten Lichtsignale Phasendifferenzen aufweisen, welche proportional sind zu der Differenz zwischen den Längen der in der AWG-Einheit (120) enthaltenen Wellenleiter, einen zweiten Stemkoppler (130) zum Fokussieren der von der AWG-Einheit (120) erhaltenen Lichtsignale auf unterschiedliche Positionen durch Bewirken wechselseitiger Interferenz zwischen den erhaltenen Lichtsignalen, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der zweite Stemkoppler (130) die erhaltenen Lichtsignale ...

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07-03-2002 дата публикации

Method for compensating cross-phase modulation in optical fiber amplifiers, involves obtaining control signal from optical wave-length multiplex signal and controlling the phase-modulator to which wave-length multiplex signal is supplied

Номер: DE0010039951A1
Автор: RAPP LUTZ, RAPP, LUTZ
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A method for compensation of signal variations caused by cross-phase modulation in an optical fiber amplifier (6), in which a control signal (SMS) is obtained from the optical wave-length multiplex signal (WMS) and the phase modulator, which receives the phase-length multiplex signal, is then controlled so that the signal variations caused by the cross-phase modulation of the WMS-signal are maximally compensated.

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15-04-2010 дата публикации

Kompakter Multiplexer/Demultiplexer

Номер: DE102008042716A1
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Die vorliegende Erfindung betrifft einen Multiplexer/Demultiplexer mit einem Anschluß für das Einkoppeln und/oder Auskoppeln eines optischen Signals, das Signalkomponenten verschiedener Wellenlängen aufweist, einer Trägerplatte (8) mit mindestens einem wellenlängensensitiven Element (11), einem Fokussierglied (13) mit mindestens zwei fokussierenden Elementen (14, 14') sowie einer Detektor- oder Signalerzeugerplatte (1), auf der mindestens zwei Detektoren (4) oder Signalerzeuger angeordnet sind. Um dies zu erreichen, wird erfindungsgemäß vorgeschlagen, dass das Fokussierglied (13) mindestens einen vorzugsweise einstückig mit dem Fokussierglied ausgebildeten Faseranschlag für die Justierung eines Wellenleiters aufweist und mit der Detektor- oder Signalerzeugerplatte (1) oder mit der Trägerplatte (8) über ein elastisches Verbindungselement (23) verbunden ist.

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14-07-1999 дата публикации

Optical networks

Номер: GB0009911200D0
Автор:
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04-02-1998 дата публикации

Optical wavelength filter and optical demultiplexer

Номер: GB0009725583D0
Автор:
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28-08-1996 дата публикации

Optical amplifier modules

Номер: GB0009613413D0
Автор:
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30-08-1995 дата публикации

Apparatus for adjusting channel width of multi-channel fiber amplifier light source

Номер: GB0009513058D0
Автор:
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17-06-1987 дата публикации

Digital communication network architecture for providing universal information services

Номер: GB0002184327A
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A switched integrated wideband and narrowband multiservices digital network (FIGS. 1 and 2) is an ISDM providing universal information services based on wideband and narrowband voice, data, and video communications. It comprises a plurality of service areas (100, 101), each served by a central switching node (110). The central node is connected to a plurality of remote nodes (103) by feeder optical fibers (107) and a control bus extension (106). Network interface equipment (104) at subscribers' (102) premises is connected to remote nodes by distribution optical fibers (105). Each distribution fiber is wavelength-division multiplexed and carries modulated (pulse-analog, pulse-code, or differential pulse-code) wideband digital channels (205) and a multiplexed channel (206) comprising 32 time-division-multiplexed narrowband digital channels (207). One narrowband channel (207D) carries all signaling messages. Feeder fibers are wavelength-division multiplexed and carry modulated wideband digital ...

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24-07-1996 дата публикации

Multi-channel multiplexed communications

Номер: GB2297212A
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Each channel (eg of a TDM or WDM system) is sent to a corresponding electro-optical converter 10, each of which is monitored 11 and controlled 12 to produce a signal of suitable amplitude. Also, all the monitored outputs are processed 13 to provide 14 a further control signal (which depends, inter alia , on the number of converters in use) for all the converters 10. The outputs of the converters are combined 5 and amplified 6. The further control signal is also sent to the multi-channel amplifier 6 and subsequent repeaters. The repeaters (figs 11, 13, 14, 16) are of similar construction to amplifier 6 and operate in a similar way to the transmitter. This allows for problems induced by having a variable number of channels in use, and the relatively slow start-up of any newly activated channel, to be reduced.

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28-10-1998 дата публикации

Add/drop multiplexer apparatus

Номер: GB0002324687A
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Add/drop multiplexer apparatus comprises (8+4n) signal interchange units (1), where n is zero or a positive integer, arranged at respective connection nodes around a ring network (200) having four main channels (VC4#1 # 4). Each signal interchange unit is arranged so that a pair of the main channels passes therethrough and is operable to cause an information signal such as a lower-order virtual container VC-12 to pass between the two main channels of the pair. The signal interchange units are arranged in sets of four units such that in each set each main channel passes through two units of the set, and a different pair of main channels passes through each unit of the set. At least one of the signal interchange units has a tributary port (6) for connection to a tributary channel of the ring network and is operable to cause an information signal to pass between the tributary channel and either main channel of the pair of main channels passing therethrough. In such apparatus the utilisation ...

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19-12-2001 дата публикации

WDM signal monitoring using variable arrayed waveguides

Номер: GB2363536A
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A system for monitoring WDM channels in an optical system includes a phased array optical wavelength demodulator (phasar). The phasar is controlled to vary the effective optical length of the waveguides in the array such that a particular wavelength signal can be output for monitoring. This control of the arrayed waveguides may be effected by heaters, acousto-optic, electro-optic, magneto-optic, or plasma effects.

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11-09-2002 дата публикации

Regenerative interface

Номер: GB0002359433B

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25-10-2006 дата публикации

Add multiplexer for WDM comprising a plurality of daisy chained wavelength filters, each with three or more ports

Номер: GB2425420A
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An optical transmission device for transmitting an optical WDM signal, comprising: receiving monitors (71-1 to 71-4) for detecting presence/absence of respective incoming optical add signals; and an optical add wavelength filtering unit (72) including wavelength filters (F1 to F4) associated with the respective receiving monitors (71-1 to 71-4), each of the wavelength filters (F1 to F4) having first and second ports (P1, P3) as input ports and a third port (P2) as an output port, a predetermined wavelength of the optical add signal input from the second port being transmitted to the third port, input wavelengths from the first port being transmitted to the third port except for a wavelength corresponding to the predetermined wavelength, the wavelength filters (F1 to F4) being connected together at the first and third ports in daisy chain form.

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07-07-2010 дата публикации

Optical signal transmission control device and optical signal transmission control method

Номер: GB0002445687B8
Автор: IZUMI FUTOSHI
Принадлежит: FUJITSU LTD, FUJITSU LIMITED

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09-01-2008 дата публикации

A method for improving the performance of OFDM receiver and a receiver using the method

Номер: GB2439866A
Автор: Oren,Roy, OREN ROY, ROY OREN
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One or more parameters of a tuner (101) of a receiver (100) may be adjusted by generating for the receiver one or more control signals associated with one or more parameters and applying control signals (106) to the tuner during a cyclic prefix (CP) period. The receiver may generate a control strobe in synchronization with the CP period wherein the control strobe essentially begins with the CP period and has duration preferably shorter than the duration of the CP period. The duration of the control strobe may be chosen such that the one or more control signals, after being applied to the tuner, each reaches its steady state before the CP period lapses. The adjusted parameters, alone or in combination, may be, for example, the gain GLNA. of the low-noise-amplifier (LNA), the synthesizer's local frequency FLO, the DC correction level LDC, the power gain amplifier GPOA, and the I/Q error, and the like. The demodulator of the receiver may generate one or more of the control signals required ...

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26-09-2007 дата публикации

Depolarising a WDM signal by passing it through a differential group delay element

Номер: GB0002436408A
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A device for depolarising channels in a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) signal is provided. A polarisation maintaining multiplexer combines a plurality of optical signals to form a polarised multiplexed signal. The multiplexed signal is then passed through a differential group delay (DGD) element adapted to modify the polarisation state of one or more optical signals within the multiplexed signal and thereby to at least partially depolarise the multiplexed signal. The multiplexed signal may include data signals and loading channel signals. Depolarising the loading channel signals in this way ensures that the data channels to not suffer from the effects of Polarisation Hole Burning. The DGD element may be a birefringent element such as a polarisation maintaining fibre with fast and slow axes at 45 degrees to the polarisation state of the input multiplexed signals. The DGD element preferably acts to ensure that at least one channel exits the DGD element with polarisation orthogonal ...

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24-10-2007 дата публикации

Methods and apparatus for single fiber optical telemetry

Номер: GB2437430A
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Single fiber optical telemetry systems and methods are disclosed. The methods and systems facilitate input and output via a single fiber optic interface. The optical telemetry systems and methods also facilitate faster data transmission rates between surface and downhole equipment in oilfield applications.

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16-07-1997 дата публикации

Chromatic dispersion compensation in wavelength division multiplexed light

Номер: GB0002309131A
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Wavelength division multiplexed optical signals with different wavelength dispersion are compensated for wavelength dispersion in a optical transmission line. Each multiplexed wavelength * small Greek lambda *1 - * small Greek lambda *n is selected by band pass filters 11-1 - 11-n. The selected optical signal for each wavelength is independently compensated for the wavelength dispersion by wavelength dispersion compensation sections 12-1 - 12-n. The wavelength dispersion compensation section of each wavelength has a optical fiber having a dispersion value with polarity opposite to that of the optical transmission line. Zero dispersion is attained for each wavelength * small Greek lambda *1 - * small Greek lambda *n as a whole, and transmission distance of wavelength division multiplexed optical signals can be extended.

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17-01-2001 дата публикации

Upgrading from a single wavelength to a multi-wavelength optical communications system

Номер: GB0002352104A
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A method for upgrading an optical communications system; in which the system comprises a plurality of nodes linked by one or more optical paths, each path for the communication of traffic comprising a single optical channel; in which each node comprises add/drop multiplex (ADM) means for adding and dropping signals in electrical form, and conversion means for convening between electrical and optical form signals output by the ADM means for transmission via a first one of the optical paths; and for convening signals received via a second one of the optical paths for input to the ADM means; the method comprising the steps of installing optical demultiplex means for selecting signals received via the second one of the optical paths according to wavelength for input to the ADM means; installing means for converting the signals output by the ADM means into a first stable narrow wavelength band optical signal; and installing optical multiplex means for guiding the first signal into the first ...

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25-06-2003 дата публикации

Raman amplifier and optical transmission system

Номер: GB0002383466A
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A Raman amplifier (10) comprises an excitation light source (11) that generates excitation light (P 1 -P M ) having a wavelength band overlapping a wavelength band of the transmission signals (S 1 -S N ), a multiplexing unit (12) that supplies the excitation light to an optical transmission path (1), and an optical filter (13), e.g. a Bragg grating, that suppresses components of light propagated through the optical transmission path (1) which are of the same wavelengths as those of the excitation light, e.g. Rayleigh scattered light (R M+1 -R M ). In such a Raman amplifier, and an optical transmission system incorporating such a Raman amplifier, characteristic deterioration caused by excitation light co-existing within the wavelength band of the transmission signals can be reduced. Application to optical time domain reflectrometry is also disclosed.

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26-05-2010 дата публикации

Optical receiver terminal station, optical communication system, and optical signal cutoff detecting method

Номер: GB0002465503A
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An optical receiver apparatus capable of instantaneously performing an optical signal cutoff detection of an optical channel during switching from a currently used optical communication system to a standby optical communication system. An optical receiver terminal station apparatus or an optical receiver terminal station for receiving a light from an optical transmitter terminal station via a currently used line and a standby line comprises an optical signal cutoff detecting circuit that stores a received optical power, based on information indicative of the optical transmitter terminal station being outputting an optical signal and that performs a cutoff detection of the optical signal, based on a result of comparing the stored value with a received light.

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27-09-1995 дата публикации

Optical amplification of wavelength-division-multiplexed signals

Номер: GB0009515583D0
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01-09-1999 дата публикации

Optical system

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22-09-2021 дата публикации

System for distributing power and communication signals in optical fibre access networks

Номер: GB0002593338A
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The present invention relates to a system for distributing power and communication signals in optical fibre access networks using optical boxes, including an optical box bus containing three optical splitter boxes (10) connected in sequence and one termination box (12). The first optical splitter box (10) receives a distribution or splitter cable (CD) formed by a single optical fibre, providing a given optical input power, said optical splitter box (10) having an input splitter (DE) to effect the unbalanced splitting of the optical input power received in the optical box (10) of the bus into two portions. A first portion of the optical input power is conveyed to an output splitter (DS), the output splitter (DS) splitting the first portion of the optical power into optical powers that are selectively transferred to respective user terminal optical cables (CT). A second portion of the optical input power is conveyed to the second optical box (10) of the bus over a continuation cable (CC) ...

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23-10-1985 дата публикации

FREQUENCY REFERENCING SYSTEM

Номер: GB0008522821D0
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22-01-1997 дата публикации

Optical add/drop circuit having a fiber grating

Номер: GB0009625438D0
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05-02-1992 дата публикации

Synchronous multi-wavelength optical terminal

Номер: GB0002246677A
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A terminal for a star-coupled synchronous wavelength multiplexed optical network. Regeneration and retiming of received demultiplexed signals is performed under control of clock signals derived from clock information extracted from one receiver channel the derived clock signals having incremental phase differences relative to the extracted clock. The derived clock signal for each channel is selected in accordance with the optical propagation delay characteristics of the channel. The terminal transmitted clock is selected in accordance with the phase difference between the terminals own reflected signals and signals in a reference channel. ...

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13-08-1997 дата публикации

An optical amplifier comprising a number of different gain media in order to perform multiwavelength automatic power control

Номер: GB0002310095A
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An optical amplifier system containing a plurality of different gain media connected in series in order to amplify a signal having a number of different wavelengths. Each such media primarily amplifies only one wavelength of the signal. The system operates so as to control amplifier gain in order to maintain signal powers at a given equilibrium distribution with respect to wavelength. Preferably the amplifier system performs this multiwavelength automatic power control (MAPC), and multiwavelength automatic gain control (MAGC) automatically without any external electronic circuits. The system may comprise as single multistage optical amplifier consisting of the different gain medias or an amplifier cascade consisting of a plurality of discrete amplifiers, each amplifier containing one or more of the different gain medias. The different gain medias may include aluminosilicate erbium and germanosilicate erbium doped optical fibres.

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09-04-2014 дата публикации

Optical device and methods

Номер: GB0002506745A
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Optical device and methodsA device and method for controlling light by wavelength in a device 6000 with a switch plane (fig 12) and a dispersion plane (fig 13) uses optics providing an imaging function in the dispersion plane, and a Fourier transform function in the switch plane, so as to enable crosstalk to be reduced.

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12-01-2012 дата публикации

Use of Multiple Shared Wavelength Lockers to Stabilize Transponders in a Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) Network

Номер: US20120008955A1
Принадлежит: FutureWei Technologies Inc

An apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to receive a wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) signal from a remote node, wherein the WDM signal comprises a first channel carrying a first remotely generated signal, a second channel carrying a second remotely generated signal, and a third channel, adapt the WDM signal into a composite WDM signal by: dropping the first remotely generated signal from the first channel; adding a first locally generated signal to the first channel; and adding a second locally generated signal to the third channel, and provide wavelength locking to the first locally generated signal and the second locally generated signal without providing wavelength locking to the second remotely generated signal.

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01-03-2012 дата публикации

Wavelength multiplexing unit and wavelength multiplexing method of wavelength multiplexing optical transmission system

Номер: US20120051750A1
Автор: Yutaka Yano
Принадлежит: NEC Corp

When using a wavelength multiplexing unit of a wavelength multiplexing optical transmission system in which a wavelength tunable type optical transmitter and a wavelength multiplexer having no wavelength selectivity are combined, undesired light that is not supposed to be flown into a wavelength channel may be mixed therein. A wavelength multiplexing unit includes: transmitters having functions of outputting signal lights of different wavelengths from each other and changing the wavelengths; band-limiting filters provided to each of the transmitters, which have functions of eliminating the lights out of bands from the signal lights outputted from the transmitters, and changing the center wavelengths of the bands; and a wavelength multiplexer including ports capable of inputting the lights of any wavelengths, which inputs signal lights from which the light out of the bands is eliminated by the band-limiting filters and multiplexes the signal lights.

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05-04-2012 дата публикации

Multi-wavelength transponder with wavelength division multiplexing modules

Номер: US20120082458A1
Принадлежит: Fujitsu Ltd

According to one embodiment, a system for transmitting an optical signal comprises a traffic distribution circuit configured to distribute traffic to a plurality of wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) modules. The system further comprises a first WDM module and a second WDM module. The first and second WDM modules each comprise a plurality of tunable optical transmitters, with each transmitter associated with a different wavelength band of a plurality of wavelength bands. Each transmitter in the first and second WDM modules is also tuned to transmit optical signals in channels included within the associated wavelength band of the transmitter. The first and second WDM modules each comprise a multiplexer configured to combine the optical signals transmitted from the plurality of transmitters into optical signals. The system further comprises a cyclic multiplexer configured to combine the optical signals from the first and second WDM modules into an optical output signal.

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12-04-2012 дата публикации

Method and system for protection switching

Номер: US20120087648A1
Принадлежит: Fujitsu Ltd

A method is provided for protection switching in an optical network. The method may include communicating a switch request for initiation of protection switching in response to a determination that at least a minimum frequency of interrupts indicating failure of an optical signal has occurred over a first period. The method may also include communicating a switch request for cessation of protection switching in response to a determination that no more than a maximum frequency of interrupts indicating failure of an optical signal has occurred over a second period.

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12-04-2012 дата публикации

Bidirectional wavelength division multiplexed-passive optical network

Номер: US20120087666A1
Автор: Oh-Kee Kwon, Yongsoon Baek

Provided is a bidirectional WDM-PON. The bidirectional WDM-PON includes an optical comb generator, an amplifier, an optical de-interleaver, a downstream signal generator, an upstream signal generator, an upper circulator, and a lower circulator. The optical comb generator generates multi-wavelength light. The amplifier amplifies the multi-wavelength light. The optical de-interleaver receives the amplified multi-wavelength light to divide the received light into an odd wavelength train and an even wavelength train, and outputs the odd and even wavelength trains. The downstream signal generator receives the odd wavelength train to generate a downstream signal. The upstream signal receiver receives an upstream signal. The upper circulator determines a delivery path of the odd wavelength train and the downstream signal. The lower circulator determines a delivery path of the even wavelength train and the upstream signal.

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12-04-2012 дата публикации

Optical node and optical communication method

Номер: US20120087669A1
Автор: Koji BIWA, Kosuke Komaki
Принадлежит: Fujitsu Ltd

In an optical node, a transmitter produces an optical supervisory signal for supervising an optical network, a processor is operative to control a power level of the optical supervisory signal according to a per-wavelength power level of an optical communication signal when the optical node has no post amplifiers, and a multiplexer combines the controlled optical supervisory signal with the optical communication signal to be transmitted to another optical node located downstream.

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03-05-2012 дата публикации

Optical multiplexing terminating device, passive optical network system and method for allocating wavelength

Номер: US20120106958A1
Принадлежит: HITACHI LTD

A passive optical network system such that the power consumption can be reduced as much as possible according to the end-user traffic. An OLT uses the DBA function thereof and sequentially uses frequencies in ascending order of transmission rate in order to sequentially allocate bands to ONUs in ascending order of the requested bandwidth. At this time, a frequency to be allocated is selected so that the bandwidth allocated to each ONU is narrower than a maximum bandwidth through which transmission using the allocated wavelength is enabled. An OLT uses a grant area to specify the transmission timing of the secondary station and to inform the specified transmission timing to the secondary station. In addition, an area is set for storing information used to inform the secondary station of a new frequency to be used.

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17-05-2012 дата публикации

Fair token arbitration systems and methods

Номер: US20120120468A1
Принадлежит: Hewlett Packard Development Co LP

Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to arbitration systems and methods. In one embodiment, an arbitration system comprises a loop-shaped arbitration waveguide ( 602 ), a loop-shaped hungry waveguide ( 603 ), and a loop-shaped broadcast waveguide ( 604 ). The arbitration, hungry, and broadcast waveguides optically coupled to a home node and a number of requesting nodes. The arbitration waveguide transmits tokens injected by the home node. A token extracted by a requesting node grants the node access to a resource for the duration or length of the token. The hungry waveguide transmits light injected by the home node. A requesting node in a hungry state extracts the light from the hungry waveguide. The broadcast waveguide transmits light injected by the home node such that the light indicates to requesting nodes not in the hungry state to stop extracting tokens from the arbitration waveguide.

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17-05-2012 дата публикации

Optical transmission device, optical transmission system and optical transmission method

Номер: US20120121256A1
Принадлежит: Fujitsu Ltd

An optical transmission device includes an extractor that extracts respective optical signals from optical signals multiplexed from a plurality of optical signals of different wavelengths, a detector that detects wavelengths of the extracted respective optical signals, a storage that stores the wavelengths of the detected respective optical signals, and a processor that is operative to derive trends in wavelength variation of the respective optical signals based on the detected respective optical signals and the respective optical signals stored in the storage, and determines that either one or both of the extractor and the detector cause the wavelengths to be varied when the trends in wavelength variation of two or more wavelengths are the same.

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24-05-2012 дата публикации

Balanced bypass circulators and folded universally-balanced interferometers

Номер: US20120128350A1
Автор: Milos Popovic
Принадлежит: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The invention generally relates, in one aspect, to an interferometer system. The interferometer system includes a splitter/combiner element (SCE), a first bi-directional optical path, and a second bi-directional optical path.

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28-06-2012 дата публикации

Route Search and Wavelength Allocation Method in Optical Network and Device Thereof

Номер: US20120163814A1
Автор: Wei Zhao
Принадлежит: ZTE Corp

The present invention provides a method and device for routing and wavelength assignment in an optical network. The method comprises: a topology step in which a topology network of the optical network is obtained; a route calculation step in which at least one route in the topology network is calculated, a first node and a last node of the route being predetermined, and the at least one route being part of all routes from the first node to the last node; and a wavelength assignment determination step in which for each node on the route, it is determined whether link attribute information of the node meets a predetermined constraint condition, if the predetermined constraint condition is met, the route is selected as a working route, and the method ends; if the predetermined constraint condition is not met, the method returns to the route calculation step.

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28-06-2012 дата публикации

Optical repeater and optical signal amplifying method thereof

Номер: US20120163830A1

Disclosed is an optical amplifier which includes an upward optical amplifier configured to amplify an input upward optical signal of an input optical signal; and a control circuit configured to control an operation of the upward optical amplifier according to whether an upward stream is detected from the input upward optical signal.

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05-07-2012 дата публикации

Protection device and protection method for optical network

Номер: US20120170925A1
Автор: YONG You, Zhennan Liu
Принадлежит: ZTE Corp

Optical network protection devices and protection methods including: a working line; a protection line; a determination module configured to determine the protection type of optical network; a first judgment module configured to judge whether the working line is normal according to performance parameter values of service signal in the working line and switching conditions configured for multiplexing section protection when the protection type of optical network is the multiplexing section protection; a second judgment module, configured to judge whether the working line is normal according to performance parameter values of service signal in the working line and switching conditions configured for channel section protection when the protection type of optical network is the channel section protection; a switching module, configured to take the service signal in the protection line as an output signal when working line is abnormal.

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12-07-2012 дата публикации

Communication system and method for directly transmitting signals between nodes of a communication system

Номер: US20120177373A1
Принадлежит: NTT DOCOMO INC

A communication system has a plurality of nodes adapted to provide for a communication with one or more devices, a central node, a passive optical network having a multiplexer/demultiplexer device adapted to demultiplex a first optical signal from the central node to the plurality of nodes, and to multiplex second optical signals from one or more of the nodes, each node having allocated a wavelength for generating its optical signal, wherein for directly transmitting signals from one node to at least one of the other nodes, the one node is adapted to generate an optical signal at the wavelength allocated to the at least one of the other nodes, the optical signal including the signal to be transmitted, and wherein the multiplexer/demultiplexer device of the passive optical network is adapted to combine the optical signal from the one node with the first optical signal.

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19-07-2012 дата публикации

Optical packet switching device

Номер: US20120183293A1
Автор: Thierry Zami
Принадлежит: Individual

An optical packet switching device ( 20 ) comprises an input section ( 9 ) able to receive an optical signal comprising data packets ( 60 ) carried by wavelength channels, a transit section ( 30 ) comprising optical paths ( 31 ) to ensure the transparent transit of the respective wavelength channels, several selector elements ( 34 ) which can be switched in packet mode to selectively block or allow an individual data packet to pass through, and a control unit able to receive signalling information about the data packets received in the input section and to control a selector element corresponding to the wavelength channel to block or allow said data packets to pass, said control unit maintaining the selector element ( 34 ) in a blocking state during the time windows in which no data packets are received on said wavelength channel.

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26-07-2012 дата публикации

Optical transmission method and apparatus using ofdm

Номер: US20120189311A1
Принадлежит: Individual

In order to achieve a higher spectral efficiency of OFDM sub-bands, optical signals using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing are transmitted through an optical network in the form of a continuous waveband optical signal. An optical add/drop multiplexer ( 1 ) splits the continuous waveband optical signal into an express path and a drop path. A band pass filter ( 4 ) is provided in the drop path to extract a sub-band carrying at least one of said OFDM modulated optical signals (DROP). The band pass filter ( 4 ) has a filter bandwidth that covers the sub-band to be extracted. A band-stop filter ( 3 ) is provided in the express path to remove the sub-band to be extracted from the continuous waveband optical signal (IN). The band stop filter ( 3 ) has a filter bandwidth which is narrower than the band pass filter ( 4 ). An OFDM modulated optical add signal (ADD) can be added into the wavelength gap created through the band stop filter ( 3 ). The sub-band carrying the optical add signal (ADD) occupies a wavelength range which is completely covered by the filter bandwidth of the band-stop filter ( 3 ). The difference between the filter bandwidths of the band pass filter ( 4 ) and the band stop filter ( 3 ) corresponds preferably to the slope of the filter edges of the filters ( 3, 4 ).

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02-08-2012 дата публикации

System, laser-on-cmos chip, and method for setting a wavelength to be used by the laser-on-cmos chip

Номер: US20120195599A1
Автор: Stefan Dahlfort
Принадлежит: Individual

A system, a Laser-on-CMOS chip, and a method are described herein in accordance with the present invention. In one embodiment, the present invention enables a conventional WDM-capable system to dictate what wavelengths a Laser-on-CMOS chip's optical ports will use by seeding each of their LoC upstream reflective light generation devices (e.g., RSOAs) with a particular wavelength.

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09-08-2012 дата публикации

Method and System for Realizing Multi-Directional Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexing

Номер: US20120201536A1
Принадлежит: ZTE Corp

A method and system for realizing multi-directional reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer are provided, and the system includes: N optical preamplifiers, N demultiplexing units and M optical crossbar switches; the method includes: amplifying optical signals sent from N directions respectively, and dividing the optical signals in each direction into M groups of optical signals with different wavelengths; then transmitting N groups of demultiplexed optical signals with same wavelength in each direction to the same optical crossbar switch, and each optical crossbar switch receiving N groups of optical signals with same wavelength; each optical crossbar switch outputting the inputted optical signals from the corresponding output interfaces according to configuration information, wherein M and N are positive integers.

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06-09-2012 дата публикации

Optical node apparatus, method for checking connection in node apparatus and program thereof

Номер: US20120224170A1
Автор: Takuya HISAMOTO
Принадлежит: NEC Corp

An optical node apparatus whose plural function units are connected each other through an optical transmission line includes a control unit which carries out control to send an optical test signal and to stop sending the optical test signal a sending unit which sends the optical test signal on the basis of an instruction issued by the control unit a receiving unit which receives the optical test signal sent by the sending unit through the optical transmission line and a discriminating unit which discriminates whether the receiving unit receives the optical test signal.

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20-09-2012 дата публикации

Method and apparatus for optical path validation in an optical network

Номер: US20120237207A1
Принадлежит: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson AB

The invention relates to a method in a border node of an optical network and in an external optical channel originating apparatus and to a border node of an optical network and a router. The invention is particularly applicable to optical path validation in an optical network for an externally originating optical channel. The invention may be used during an optical path fault recovery operation. In the method in a border node of an optical network optical channel traffic parameter associated with an optical channel are received from an optical channel originator external to the optical network. The received optical channel traffic parameters are used to determine the suitability of at least one optical path within the optical network for an externally originating optical channel. If a suitable optical path is determined an optical channel availability message indicating the availability at the border node of an optical path within the optical network for the optical channel is sent to the optical channel originator. In the method in an optical channel originator external to an optical network the optical channel traffic parameters associated with an optical channel originating at the optical channel originator are sent to a border node of the optical network. An optical channel availability message indicating the availability at the optical network border node of an optical path within the optical network for the optical channel with which the optical channel traffic parameters are associated is received from the border node. An available optical channel status of the optical channel is determined from the received optical channel availability message for the optical channel.

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20-09-2012 дата публикации

Dispersion compensation design method and dispersion compensation design system

Номер: US20120237214A1
Принадлежит: Fujitsu Ltd

A dispersion compensation design system includes a segment dividing unit to divide an optical network into segments of a linear network or a ring network, a path classifying unit to classify one of paths of the optical network, as a specific type path, the one of the paths being incapable of transmitting an optical signal and contained in a longer path having a route longer than that of the one of the paths and capable of transmitting the optical signal, a segment reconfiguration unit to reconfigure the segments so as to maximize a number of the specific type paths, a dispersion compensation amount computing unit to compute a dispersion compensation amount in any of spans of the optical network so as to minimize the number of the specific type paths within the reconfigured segment, and an update unit to update the dispersion compensation amount with the computed dispersion compensation amount.

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27-09-2012 дата публикации

Distributing Wavelength Compatible with Signaling Protocols

Номер: US20120243870A1
Автор: Greg BERNSTEIN, Young Lee
Принадлежит: FutureWei Technologies Inc

An apparatus, comprising a first node configured to communicate with a second node to generate a wavelength assignment, wherein the first node is configured to send a wavelength availability information to the second node. Included is a network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method, comprising receiving a wavelength availability information, and updating the wavelength availability information using a local wavelength availability information. Also included is a method, comprising acquiring a local wavelength assignment information, calculating a local wavelength availability information, and transmitting the local wavelength availability information to a subsequent network element on a lightpath.

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04-10-2012 дата публикации

Method of Operating an Optical Network Element and Optical Network Element

Номер: US20120251122A1
Принадлежит: ADVA Optical Networking SE

The invention relates to a method of operating a first optical network element ( 100 ), particularly an optical network unit, ONU, wherein said method comprises the following steps: performing a coarse tuning process ( 2100 ) of at least one transmission wavelength which is used by said first optical network element ( 100 ) for transmitting an optical signal to a second optical network element ( 200 ), particularly an optical line terminal, OLT, and performing a fine tuning process ( 2200 ) of said at least one transmission wavelength, wherein said fine tuning process ( 2200 ) is preferably performed after said coarse tuning process ( 2100 ).

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18-10-2012 дата публикации

System and Method for Establishing Secure Communications Between Transceivers in Undersea Optical Communication Systems

Номер: US20120263476A1

In general, a system and method provides secure communications between optical transceivers in an optical communication system. Two or more optical transceivers may be provisioned with one or more passcodes assigned to the transceivers, which may be used to indicate that received data traffic is intended for the transceivers. The transceivers may be configured to format data traffic with a secure version of the passcode in the overhead of the outbound signal and may be configured to determine if an inbound signal includes a secure version of the passcode provisioned in that transceiver. A transceiver may prevent data traffic from being read when the transceiver is not provisioned to receive data traffic with the embedded secure passcode and may insert an alternative maintenance signal (AMS) into an outbound signal in an opposite direction, at least temporarily, until the inbound signal includes the appropriate passcode.

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03-01-2013 дата публикации

OSS Support for Control Plane Technology

Номер: US20130004170A1
Принадлежит: Telcordia Technologies Inc

The OSS provides unique and automated provisioning, activation, fallout management and monitoring of SONET and WDM networks comprising control plane mesh and traditional SONET/WDM Rings/Chains. Resource discovery and dynamic provisioning provides for increased use of network bandwidth. It is possible both all control plane networks and mixed control plane and traditional networks. Network connections or the network topology may be accomplished in a hop-by-hop manner.

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03-01-2013 дата публикации

Optical Line Terminal and Optical Network System

Номер: US20130004172A1
Принадлежит: HITACHI LTD

Technology to provide linked control of bandwidth allocation to a plurality of optical network units among the plural wavelengths by a bandwidth allocation section coupled to the plural optical network units.

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17-01-2013 дата публикации

Method and system for fault recovery in an optical network

Номер: US20130016964A1

A method of managing fault recovery in a trunk-branched OADM network may include determining that an optical power level over data channels of a first communications link between a first and a second terminal of the branched optical network exceeds an optical power limit. The method may further include increasing optical power sent over spare channels of the first communications link to a first level at which the optical power level over the data channels decreases to a second level below the optical power limit.

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14-02-2013 дата публикации

Echelle grating with cyclic free-spectral range

Номер: US20130039661A1
Принадлежит: Oracle International Corp

An optical de-multiplexer (de-MUX) that includes an optical device that images and diffracts an optical signal using a reflective geometry is described, where a free spectral range (FSR) of the optical device associated with a given diffraction order abuts FSRs associated with adjacent diffraction orders. Moreover, the channel spacings within diffraction orders and between adjacent diffraction orders are equal to the predefined channel spacing associated with the optical signal. As a consequence, the optical device has a comb-filter output spectrum, which reduces a tuning energy of the optical device by eliminating spectral gaps between diffraction orders of the optical device.

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28-02-2013 дата публикации

Methods and apparatuses for dwdm multi-mode switching router and dynamic multi-mode configuration and reconfiguration

Номер: US20130051798A1
Автор: Wenjing Tang, Yuhua Chen
Принадлежит: University of Houston

A multi-mode configuration module for managing switching for an EPS, OCS, and OCS mode is provided. The multi-mode configuration module may include a multi-mode configuration processor, wherein said multi-mode configuration processor receives configuration information for an EPS, OCS, or OBS mode. The module may also provide an optical configuration processor coupled to said multi-mode configuration processor, wherein said optical configuration processor manages wavelength routing of an optical switching fabric; and an electronic configuration processor coupled to said multi-mode configuration processor, wherein said electronic configuration processor manages routing of an electronic switching fabric.

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28-02-2013 дата публикации

Optical multiplexing apparatus and optical network system

Номер: US20130051803A1
Принадлежит: Fujitsu Ltd

There is provided an optical multiplexing apparatus including an extraction unit configured to extract a pilot signal multiplexed on light propagated on a transmission line, a generator configured to generate an optical subcarrier modulated signal based on a data signal to be transmitted on the transmission line and the pilot signal extracted by the extraction unit, a multiplexer configured to multiplex the optical subcarrier modulated signal generated by the generator with carrier light in order to multiplex the data signal on the carrier light propagated on the transmission line, and a nonlinear optical medium which is provided on the transmission line and on which the carrier light multiplexed by the multiplexer is incident.

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07-03-2013 дата публикации

Data Processing of an Optical Network Element

Номер: US20130058651A1
Принадлежит: NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS OY

A method for data processing of an optical network element is provided, wherein a configuration information is received at the optical network element and a light signal is adjusted to a wavelength or wavelength range indicated by said configuration information; wherein an incoming optical signal is demodulated via the light signal and mixed as an electrical demodulated signal with a signal of an oscillator; wherein the signal of the oscillator is tuned to improve a reception of the incoming signal at the optical network element; and wherein the light signal is used for upstream modulation to provide a modulated optical upstream signal. Furthermore, an according device and a communication system are suggested including at least one such device.

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14-03-2013 дата публикации

Bi-directional, compact, multi-path and free space channel replicator

Номер: US20130064550A1
Принадлежит: Inc. Eastern Optx

An apparatus for simulating radio frequency (RF) signal propagation characteristics in a wireless communication network is disclosed. The apparatus includes a first RF terminal and a second RF terminal. A first optical modulator is in electrical communication with the first RF terminal. An optical delay line is in optical communication with the first optical modulator. A first optical demodulator is in optical communication with the optical delay line and in electrical communication with the first RF terminal. A second optical demodulator is in optical communication with the optical delay line and in electrical communication with the second RF terminal. A second optical modulator is in electrical communication with the second RF terminal and in optical communication with the optical delay line.

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28-03-2013 дата публикации

Precise clock synchronization over optical fiber

Номер: US20130077964A1
Автор: Sanjay Mani
Принадлежит: Symmetricom Inc

A clock at a first network element that is connected to a second network element over first and second optical links that are physically distinct from each other is aligned using optical timing signals having different wavelengths. Transit delays between the first and second network elements may be determined using the same optical timing signals.

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28-03-2013 дата публикации

Path Computation Element Protocol (PCEP) Operations to Support Wavelength Switched Optical Network Routing, Wavelength Assignment, and Impairment Validation

Номер: US20130077970A1
Автор: Bernstein Greg, Lee Young
Принадлежит: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

An apparatus comprising a path computation element (PCE) configured for at least partial impairment aware routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) and to communicate with a path computation client (PCC) based on a PCE protocol (PCEP) that supports path routing, wavelength assignment (WA), and impairment validation (IV). The PCEP comprises at least one operation selected from the group consisting of a new RWA path request operation and a path re-optimization request operation. Also disclosed is a network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising establishing a PCEP session with a PCC, receiving path computation information comprising RWA information and constraints from the PCC, and establishing impairment aware RWA (IA-RWA) based on the path computation information and a private impairment information for a vendor's equipment. 1. A method comprising:receiving, by a path computation element (PCE), a Path Computation Element Protocol (PCEP) Path Computation Request (PCReq) Message from a path computation client (PCC) that includes one or more optical signal quality parameters to which all computed paths must conform,wherein if the PCReq message does not include a Bit Error Rate (BER) limit, andwherein if no BER limit information related to the path request is provisioned at the PCE, then the PCE returns an error specifying that a BER limit must be provided.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the optical signal quality parameters are selected from a group consisting of BER limit claim 1 , Optical Signal Noise Ratio (OSNR) plus margin claim 1 , optical signal power claim 1 , Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) claim 1 , Residual Dispersion (RD) claim 1 , and Quality (Q) factor.3. The method of claim 2 , wherein margin is about three decibels (dB) to about six dB and is set against unpredictable degradation and fiber nonlinearity.4. The method of further comprising transmitting a PCEP path computation reply (PCRep) message that ...

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04-04-2013 дата публикации

Optical repeater complying with redundant configuration

Номер: US20130084067A1
Автор: Hideyuki Iwamura
Принадлежит: Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd

An optical repeater formed in an optical passive component passively relays an incoming multiplexed optical signal. The repeater has an optical decoder decoding the multiplexed optical signal, and an optical encoder encoding an optical signal from a termination unit connected to the repeater. The repeater further includes a first optical path switch outputting an incoming multiplexed optical signal to the optical decoder and outputting the optical signal delivered from the optical decoder, a second optical path switch outputting the optical signal coming from the first optical path switch to the termination unit, and a third optical path switch outputting the optical signal coming from the second optical path switch to the encoder and outputting the optical signal delivered from the encoder.

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04-04-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORK SYSTEM, OPTICAL-SIGNAL TRANSMISSION PATH SELECTING METHOD, AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE

Номер: US20130084068A1
Принадлежит: FUJITSUT LIMITED

An optical transport network system includes a plurality of NEs, each transmitting wavelength-multiplexed optical signals. Each NE includes a routing information DB that is used to store reachable area information, which contains identifiers of other NEs in a range within which the optical signals can be transmitted from the own NE without using an REG. A FROM NE includes a path candidate searching unit that searches for a plurality of path candidates for transmitting optical signals from the FROM NE to a TO NE. The TO NE includes a path selecting unit that selects a path for transmitting optical signals from among a plurality of path candidates. The path selecting unit obtains the number of times for which the REG is used for each of the plurality of path candidates; and, based on each number of times that is obtained, selects a path for transmitting the optical signals. 1. An optical transport network system comprising a plurality of optical transmission devices each transmitting wavelength-multiplexed optical signals , whereineach of the plurality of optical transmission devices includes a memory unit that is used to store reachable area information, which contains identifiers of other optical transmission devices present in a range within which the optical signals can be transmitted from corresponding optical transmission device without using a regenerator,a source optical transmission device that is specified from among the plurality of optical transmission devices as a source of transmitting the optical signals includes a path candidate searching unit that searches for a plurality of path candidates for transmitting the optical signals from the source optical transmission device to a destination optical transmission device that is specified from among the plurality of optical transmission devices as a destination of the transmitted optical signals, andthe destination optical transmission device includes a path selecting unit that, based on the reachable area ...

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04-04-2013 дата публикации

Optical reception apparatus and optical network system

Номер: US20130084072A1
Принадлежит: Fujitsu Ltd

An optical apparatus includes a dispersing medium configured to receive carrier light which has been subjected to phase modulation in accordance with subcarrier modulation signals which has been modulated using data signals, and a signal extractor configured to extract the data signals from light output from the dispersing medium.

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11-04-2013 дата публикации

Method and apparatus for implementing self-adaption of cross granularity in optical transport network

Номер: US20130089321A1
Принадлежит: ZTE Corp

The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for implementing self-adaption of cross granularity in an Optical Transport Network (OTN). The method includes: acquiring an optical interface side OTN service signal which has been processed by a frame-forming chip, and performing determination on the frame header of an Optical channel Data Unit (ODU) frame of the current level in the OTN service signal; when frame-alignment is determined to be successful, performing level-by-level de-multiplexing processing on the ODU frame of the current level to obtain cross granularities of different levels, selecting output channels for the cross granularities of different levels, performing mapping processing on the output cross granularities of different levels to form fixed rate service signals, and outputting the fixed rate service signals to back board ports, where the signals are transmitted to a cross board. By the disclosure, the cross granularity of a single board at the line side can be self-adaptively configured without occupying any OTN overhead, thus implementing normal communication without manually modifying the cross granularity of the single board at the line side when customer services change.

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11-04-2013 дата публикации

Optimal Combined 2R/3R Regenerators Placement Method for Line Network Topologies in Optical WDM Networks

Номер: US20130089323A1
Принадлежит: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.

A method for optimal combined 2R/3R regenerators placement for optical transmission includes determining an optimal placement of multiple 2R and 3R regenerators that minimizes bit error rate BER at a destination node, determining an optimal number of the 2R and 3R regenerators that minimizes a total cost while satisfying the BER at the destination node, and determining an optimal placement of the 2R and 3R regenerators along a route in the optical transmission. 1. A method for optimal combined 2R/3R regenerators placement for optical transmission , said method comprising the steps of:i) determining an optimal placement of multiple 2R and 3R regenerators that minimizes bit error rate BER at a destination node;ii) determining an optimal number of said 2R and 3R regenerators that minimizes a total cost while satisfying said BER at said destination node; andiii) determining an optimal placement of said 2R and 3R regenerators along a route in said optical transmission2. The method of claim 1 , wherein said step i) comprises a recursive process based on the following relationships{'br': None, 'i': 'B[i,m,n', 'sub': (i−1,m,n)', '(i−1,m−1,n)', '(i−1,m,n−1), 'sup': (i,1,i)', '(i,2,i)', '(i,3,i), =α×BER+β×BER+γ×BER\u2003\u2003(1)'}{'br': None, 'i': 'P[i,m,n]=α×', '1+β×2+γ×3 \u2003\u2003(2)'}{'br': None, 'where'}{'br': None, 'sub': (i−1,m,n)', '(i−1,m−1,n)', '(i−1,m,n), 'sup': (i,1,d)', '(i,2,d)', '(i,3,d), 'α=1 if BER≦Min(BER,BER)'}{'br': None, 'α=0 Otherwise, \u2003\u2003(3)'}{'br': None, 'sub': (i−1,m−1,n)', '(i−1,m,n)', '(i−1,m,n−1), 'sup': (i,2,d)', '(i,1,d)', '(i,3,d), 'β=1 if BER≦Min(BER, BER)'}{'br': None, 'β=0 Otherwise, \u2003\u2003(4)'}{'br': None, 'sub': (i−1,m,n−1)', '(i−1,m−1,n)', '(i−1,m,n), 'sup': (i,3,d)', '(i,2,d), BER', '(i,1,d), 'γ=1 if BER≦Min(BER)'}{'br': None, 'γ=0 Otherwise, \u2003\u2003(5)'}{'br': None, 'α+β+γ=1 \u2003\u2003(6)'}3. The method of claim 1 , wherein said step ii) comprises evaluating the optimal placement of m 2R regenerators and n 3R ...

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11-04-2013 дата публикации

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONVERGED SERVICES

Номер: US20130089329A1
Принадлежит: AT&T Corp.

A method and apparatus for providing link establishment in the access segment of the communications network using broadband multi-wavelength LED are disclosed. In one embodiment, such links may be established in point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, multipoint-to-multipoint, or ring format depending on the topology required for optimized access network build-out. 1. A method for providing a service using a broadband light emitting diode free space optical link in a communication network , comprising:deploying a broadband multi-wavelength light emitting diode free space optical link to support communication, wherein the broadband multi-wavelength light emitting diode free space optical link radiates optical energy over a spectrum of wavelengths;selecting a wavelength from the spectrum of wavelengths that is suited for a particular atmospheric condition; anddelivering the service over the broadband multi-wavelength light emitting diode free space optical link over the wavelength that is selected.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the service comprises a voice application.3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the wavelength is selected to maintain a specific level of service.4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the broadband multi-wavelength light emitting diode free space optical link comprises a broadband multi-wavelength light emitting diode free space optical transmitter and a broadband multi-wavelength light emitting diode free space optical receiver at each endpoint of a plurality of endpoints.5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the broadband multi-wavelength light emitting diode free space optical link is deployed in a configuration that forms a mesh network.6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the mesh network provides path diversity.7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the service comprises a video application.8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the service comprises a data application.9. A system for providing a service using a broadband light emitting diode free space ...

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18-04-2013 дата публикации

MULTIPLEXER/DEMULTIPLEXER AND MULTIPLEXING/DEMULTIPLEXING METHOD

Номер: US20130094853A1
Принадлежит: NEC Corporation

In order to realize a multiplexer/demultiplexer in which utilization efficiency of a frequency is high, wavelength characteristics of a transmission band is flat, the cost is low, the size is small, and a wavelength and a band are variable, the multiplexer/demultiplexer includes: first light branching means for branching inputted light into plurality of pieces of light and outputting the branched pieces of light; a plurality of light wavelength separating means for separating and outputting light outputted from the first light branching means for each of predetermined frequency bands; and an optical coupling means for making outputs having frequency bands different from each other among outputs from the light wavelength separating means gather and be outputted. 1. A multiplexer/demultiplexer , comprising:a first light branching unit that branches inputted light into a plurality of pieces of light and outputs said branched pieces of light;a plurality of light wavelength separating unit that separates and outputs light outputted from said first light branching unit for each of predetermined frequency bands; andan optical coupling unit that makes outputs having different pieces of said frequency bands among outputs from said light wavelength separating unit gather with each other to output said gathered outputs.2. The multiplexer/demultiplexer according to claim 1 , wherein claim 1 ,in one of outputs of said optical coupling units, said light wavelength separating unit and said optical coupling unit are connected such that at least two of said predetermined frequency bands are arranged next to each other.3. The multiplexer/demultiplexer according to claim 1 , whereincenter frequencies of said frequency bands are arranged in a predetermined frequency interval, and whereinsaid center frequencies of said plurality of light wavelength separating unit differ from each other.4. The multiplexer/demultiplexer according to claim 3 , whereineach of said frequency bandwidths and ...

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18-04-2013 дата публикации

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT IN MULTI-MODE SWITCHING DWDM NETWORKS

Номер: US20130094856A1
Автор: Chen Yuhua
Принадлежит: University of Houston

A Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) multi-mode switching system and method and method provides concurrent switching in various switching modes including, but not limited to, an electronic packet switching (EPS) mode, optical circuit switching (OCS) mode, and optical burst switching (OBS) mode. Edge routers in the WDM multi-mode switching systems may provide a traffic management module that processes incoming data and routes the data for transmission in an electronic packet switching (EPS), optical burst switching (OBS), or optical circuit switching (OCS) modes via a WDM link. 1. An edge router system for multi-mode switching comprising: a multi-mode packet processor receiving said data, wherein said packet processor routes said data for transmission in an electronic packet switching (EPS) mode, optical burst switching (OBS) mode, or optical circuit switching (OCS) mode;', 'an EPS mode processor coupled to said multi-mode packet processor, wherein if transmission in an EPS mode is desired, data received by said EPS mode processor is prepared for transmission on an EPS connection;', 'an OBS mode processor coupled to said multi-mode packet processor, wherein if transmission in an OBS mode is desired, data received by said OBS mode processor is prepared for transmission on an OBS connection;', 'an OCS mode processor coupled to said multi-mode packet processor, wherein if transmission in an OCS mode is desired, data received by said OCS mode processor is prepared for transmission on an OCS connection; and, 'a traffic management module receiving data from one or more sources, said traffic management module comprising'}a multiplexer coupled to said EPS mode processor, OBS mode processor, or OCS mode processor, wherein outgoing data received by said multiplexer is outputted to a WDM link.2. The system of claim 1 , wherein said traffic management module further comprises:a multi-mode switching controller coupled to said multi-mode packet processor, wherein said multi- ...

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18-04-2013 дата публикации

CONTROL OF BUFFERING IN MULTI-TOKEN OPTICAL NETWORK FOR DIFFERENT TRAFFIC CLASSES

Номер: US20130094858A1
Принадлежит: Telefonaktiebolaget LM

A node () for an optical communications network in which a token is passed between nodes, indicating that a corresponding optical channel is available for transmission during a token holding time while that node holds that token, until it passes the token to another node. A transmit controller () determines a traffic class of said packet and controls a buffer to forward a packet from the buffer to the transmitter according to the traffic class, if there is sufficient of the token holding time remaining before the received token must be passed on to another node for said packet to be transmitted by the transmitter over an optical channel corresponding to the received token. By having the packet forwarding dependent on traffic class, packets can be handled differently to suit different characteristics of the traffic classes. 1. A node suitable for a optical communications network , the node comprising:a transmitter for transmitting packets to at least one other node over at least one optical channel,at least one buffer for buffering packets before transmission by the transmitter,a receiver for receiving a token, each token indicating to the node that at least one corresponding optical channel is available to the node for transmission during a token holding time while that node holds that token, until it passes the token to another node anda transmit controller configured to determine a traffic class of said packet and to control the buffer to forward said packet from said buffer to the transmitter according to the traffic class, if there is sufficient of the token holding time remaining before the received token must be passed on to another node for said packet to be transmitted by the transmitter over an optical channel corresponding to the received token.2. The node of claim 1 , the transmit controller being arranged to control according to the traffic class by determining a token holding time according to the traffic class of the packet to be forwarded.3. The node ...

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18-04-2013 дата публикации

Wavelength Management in Multiple-Wavelength Passive Optical Networks

Номер: US20130094862A1
Принадлежит: FutureWei Technologies Inc

A system for supporting wavelength management in a passive optical network (PON), comprising an optical line terminal (OLT) configured to send an wavelength assignment for optical network unit (ONU) communications based on a wavelength tunability capability, and an ONU coupled to the OLT and configured to send the wavelength tunability capability to the OLT, wherein the wavelength assignment and the wavelength tunability capability are sent in media access control (MAC) messages. Also disclosed is an apparatus of an OLT for supporting wavelength management, comprising one or more component configured to couple to an ONU and exchange a wavelength assignment for transmission with the ONU based on a wavelength tunability of the ONU, wherein the wavelength indication and the wavelength tunability are exchanged via MAC layer frames.

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02-05-2013 дата публикации

METHOD FOR OPTICAL SWITCH AND OPTICAL SWITCH

Номер: US20130108266A1
Автор: FU Zhenghua
Принадлежит: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Embodiments of the present application provide a method for an optical switch and an optical switch. The optical switch includes a light turning unit, configured to turn a plurality of light beams, where the light turning unit includes a plurality of MEMs grating beams, the plurality of light beams falls on the plurality of MEMs grating beams to form a plurality of light spots, one light spot falls on at least two MEMs grating beams, one grating beam bears a part of one light spot, and at least two MEMs grating beams in the plurality of MEMs grating beams are rotated in turn in batches, to reflect at least a part of a light spot to at least one preset emergent path. 1. An optical switch , comprising:a light turning unit, configured to turn a plurality of light beams, wherein the light turning unit comprises a plurality of MEMs grating beams, the plurality of light beams falls on the plurality of MEMs grating beams to form a plurality of light spots, one light spot falls on at least two MEMs grating beams, one grating beam bears a part of one light spot, and at least two MEMs grating beams in the plurality of MEMs grating beams are rotated in turn in batches, to reflect at least a part of a light spot to at least one preset emergent path; andthe preset emergent path, configured to output at least the part of the light spot reflected thereto.2. The optical switch according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of MEMs grating beams is a comb structure.3. The optical switch according to claim 1 , wherein a working width of each of the MEMs grating beams is smaller than a diameter of the light spot.4. The optical switch according to claim 1 , wherein in the plurality of MEMs grating beams claim 1 , each MEMs grating beam has a different working width.5. A wavelength selective optical switch combination claim 1 , comprising:at least one incident path, wherein the incident path inputs an optical signal in a form of a light beam, and the optical signal is a multi-wavelength ...

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02-05-2013 дата публикации

Bi-Direction Optical Sub-Assembly and Optical Transceiver

Номер: US20130108274A1
Автор: Zhang Xueming
Принадлежит: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a bi-direction optical sub-assembly and an optical transceiver. A transmitter in the bi-direction optical sub-assembly is configured to transmit a first communication signal or a detection signal, where the first communication signal or the detection signal is input from a first end of a first optical path and output from a second end of the first optical path, enters a second end of a third optical path through reflection of a WDM optical filter, and is input from a first end of the third optical path to an optical fiber. A second communication signal received by the optical fiber is input from the first end of the third optical path and output from the second end of the third optical path, and the second signal is received by a BOSA receiver through transmission of the WDM optical filter. 1. A bi-direction optical sub-assembly , connected to an optical fiber , comprising:a case body, wherein a transmitter, an optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) receiver, a bi-direction optical sub-assembly (BOSA) receiver, a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical filter, and a planar lightwave circuit (PLC) are disposed in an inner cavity of the case body,wherein a first optical path and a second optical path are disposed on the PLC,wherein the first optical path and the second optical path cross to form a coupler structure,wherein a first end of the first optical path is connected to the transmitter, and a second end of the first optical path is connected to the WDM optical filter,wherein a first end of the second optical path is connected to the OTDR receiver,wherein a third optical path is further disposed on the PLC,wherein a first end of the third optical path is connected to the optical fiber, and a second end of the third optical path is connected to the second end of the first optical path,wherein the WDM optical filter is connected to the BOSA receiver,wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit a first ...

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09-05-2013 дата публикации

Dual path wavelength selective switch

Номер: US20130114957A1
Принадлежит: OCLARO TECHNOLOGY LTD

An optical switching device with a switch-and-select architecture uses a single multi-port optical channel router, such as a wavelength selective switch, as a bidirectional switching device. The optical switching device includes the multi-port optical channel router and optical circulators coupled to the input/output ports of the multi-port optical channel router. The optical circulators couple one or more output ports and one or more input ports of the optical switching device to the input/output ports of the optical channel router so that the optical channel router provides symmetric, bi-directional switching at an optical network node.

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09-05-2013 дата публикации

RANDOM GAP INSERTION IN AN OPTICAL RING NETWORK

Номер: US20130114958A1
Автор: "ONeill Shane", Farell Tom
Принадлежит: INTUNE NETWORKS LIMITED

The invention provides a burst transmission optical fibre wavelength routed ring network and method comprising a plurality of nodes on a network ring where each node can drop and add a wavelength. The network has a control means to control the wavelength to be transmitted on the network ring in a burst transmit mode from each node over a scheduling interval. The invention provides a random generator for generating a plurality of gap intervals over the scheduling interval, such that the gap intervals allow for wavelengths from different nodes to transmit wavelengths in said gaps to achieve a fair access to bandwidth and fair latency in the ring network. 1. A burst transmission optical fibre wavelength routed ring network comprising:a plurality of nodes on a network ring where each node can drop and add a wavelength; control means to control the wavelength to be transmitted on the network ring in a burst transmit mode from each node over a scheduling interval; and said control means comprises a random generator for generating a plurality of gap intervals spread over the scheduling interval, said gap intervals allow for wavelengths from different nodes to transmit wavelengths in said gaps to achieve a fair access to bandwidth and/or fair latency in the ring network.2. The network as claimed in wherein said random generator controls the insertion and size of said gaps for a wavelength by terminating bursts and preventing further transmission at the same wavelength for a determined time.3. The network as claimed in wherein said random generator is configured to control the burst data and gap sizes to meet any allocation by randomly inserting gaps over the scheduling interval.4. The network as claimed in comprising a random gap generator at each node claim 1 , each generator off-set from each other claim 1 , such that two different nodes for each scheduling interval in the network will never have the same random data/gap pattern for any wavelength.5. The network as ...

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16-05-2013 дата публикации

Open Shortest Path First Extensions in Support of Wavelength Switched Optical Networks

Номер: US20130121694A1
Автор: Bernstein Greg, Lee Young
Принадлежит: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

A network component comprising a generalized multiprotocol label switching (GMPLS) control plane controller configured to implement a method comprising transmitting a message to at least one adjacent control plane controller, wherein the message comprises a Type-Length-Value (TLV) indicating Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) information, wherein the TLV comprises a Node Attribute TLV, a Link Set TLV, or both, and wherein the TLV further comprises at least one sub-TLV indicating additional RWA information. A method comprising communicating an open shortest path first (OSPF) link state advertisement (LSA) message comprising a TLV with at least one sub-TLV to a GMPLS control plane controller, wherein the TLV comprises a Node Attribute TLV, a Link Set TLV, or both, and wherein the TLV further comprises at least one sub-TLV indicating RWA information. 1. A method comprising:transmitting, by a generalized multiprotocol label switching (GMPLS) control plane controller, Traffic Engineering (TE) properties of GMPLS TE links in an open shortest path first (OSPF) Traffic Engineering (TE) link state advertisement (LSA),wherein the TE LSA comprises a Generic Node Attribute type length value (TLV) which carries attributes related to a general network element.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the Generic Node Attribute TLV comprises a Connectivity Matrix sub-TLV which represents either a potential connectivity matrix for asymmetric switches or fixed connectivity for an asymmetric device.3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the Generic Node Attribute TLV comprises more than one Connectivity Matrix sub-TLV to contain multi-matrices within the Generic Node Attribute TLV.4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the Connectivity Matrix sub-TLV comprises a Connectivity field claim 2 , a Reserved field claim 2 , Link Set A values claim 2 , and Link Set B values.5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the Connectivity field is set to a value of 0 to indicate a device is fixed or to a value of 1 ...

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23-05-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

Номер: US20130129356A1
Принадлежит: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

An optical communication system includes an optical-signal transmission unit transmitting an existing optical signal and a low-rate-signal superimposition unit superimposing a low-rate signal on the existing optical signal by intensity modulation. It further includes: a low-rate-signal extraction unit that extracts the low-rate signal from the existing optical signal on which the low-rate signal is superimposed and converts the extracted low-rate signal into a low-rate electric signal; an add-on optical-signal transmission unit that transmits an add-on optical signal; a low-rate-signal superimposition unit that superimposes a low-rate signal on the add-on optical signal by the intensity modulation based on the low-rate electric signal; and a repeater that repeats the add-on optical signal on which the low-rate signal is superimposed, to a transmission destination. 1. An optical communication system including a first optical-signal transmission unit that transmits a first optical signal and a first low-rate-signal superimposition unit that superimposes a low-rate signal on the first optical signal by intensity modulation , the optical communication system comprising:a low-rate-signal extraction unit that extracts the low-rate signal from the first optical signal on which the low-rate signal is superimposed, and converts the extracted low-rate signal into a low-rate electric signal;a second optical-signal transmission unit that transmits a second optical signal;a second low-rate-signal superimposition unit that superimposes a low-rate signal on the second optical signal by intensity modulation based on the low-rate electric signal; anda repeater that repeats the second optical signal on which the low-rate signal is superimposed, to a transmission destination.2. The optical communication system according to claim 1 , further comprising a multiplexer that generates a multiplex signal obtained by multiplexing the first optical signal on which the low-rate signal is ...

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06-06-2013 дата публикации

Apparatus and Method for Improved Distributed Compensation of Filtering Effects Mitigation in an Optical Network

Номер: US20130142510A1
Автор: Xiang Zhou
Принадлежит: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I LP

The present disclosure describes a reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer. The reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer includes a first optical equalizer to precompensate a received optical signal for optical filtering effects to produce a first compensated optical signal. A first interleaver, coupled to the first optical equalizer, separates the first compensated optical signal into an odd optical signal and an even optical signal. A plurality of wavelength selective switches processes the odd optical signal and the even optical signal. A second interleaver, combines the odd optical signal and the even optical signal to produce a combined optical signal. A second optical equalizer, coupled to the second interleaver, postcompensates the combined optical signal for optical filtering effects to produce an output optical signal.

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06-06-2013 дата публикации

Apparatus and method for distributed compensation of narrow optical filtering effects in an optical network

Номер: US20130142516A1
Автор: Xiang Zhou
Принадлежит: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I LP

The present disclosure describes a reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer including a wavelength selective switch configured to filter wavelengths of an optical signal; and an optical equalizer, coupled to the wavelength selective switch, configured to equalize the optical signal to mitigate optical filtering effects caused by the wavelength selective switch.

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13-06-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL MODULE HAVING A PLURALITY OF OPTICAL SOURCES

Номер: US20130148966A1
Принадлежит: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.

An optical module that outputs a wavelength multiplexed optical signal is disclosed. The optical module provides at least first to third optical source, a wavelength multiplexer, a polarization rotator, and a polarization multiplexer. The optical sources each outputting first to third optical signals with a wavelength different from others. The wavelength multiplexer multiplexes the first optical signal with the third optical signal. The polarization rotator rotates the polarization vector of one of the multiplexed first and third optical signals and the second signal by substantially 90°. The polarization multiplexer multiplexes the polarization rotated optical signal with the second optical signal. 1. An optical module , comprising:first to third optical sources for outputting first to third optical signals each having one of first to third wavelengths different from others and a polarization vector substantially same to each other, wherein the first wavelength is shortest and the third wavelength is longest;a wavelength multiplexer for generating a multiplexed optical signal by transmitting one of the first and third optical signals, and reflecting another of the first and third optical signals, the wavelength multiplexer having a cut-off wavelength around the second wavelength;a polarization rotator rotating a polarization vector of one of the multiplexed optical signal and the second optical signal by substantially 90°; anda polarization multiplexer multiplexing the second optical signal with the multiplexed optical signal by transmitting one of the multiplexed optical signal and the second optical signal, and reflecting another of the multiplexed optical signal and the second optical signal.2. The optical module of claim 1 ,further comprising an optical reflector to reflect one of the first and third optical signals toward the wavelength multiplexer,wherein the wavelength multiplexer reflects one of the first and third optical signals reflected by the optical ...

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13-06-2013 дата публикации

RECEIVER OPTICAL MODULE FOR RECEIVING WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXED OPTICAL SIGNALS AND METHOD TO ASSEMBLE THE SAME

Номер: US20130148970A1
Принадлежит: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.

A receiver optical module to facilitate the assembling is disclosed. The receiver optical module includes an intermediate assembly including the optical de-multiplexer and the optical reflector each mounted on the upper base, and the lens and the PD mounted on the sub-mount. The latter assembly is mounted on the bottom of the housing; while, the former assembly is also mounted on the bottom through the lower base. The upper base is apart from the bottom and extends in parallel to the bottom to form a surplus space where the amplifying circuit is mounted. 1. An optical module for receiving optical signals each having a specific wavelength different from others , comprising:a first assembly including a plurality of photodiodes and a plurality of concentrating lenses each corresponding to respective photodiodes, the photodiodes and the concentrating lenses being mounted on a sub-mount;a second assembly including an optical de-multiplexer to de-multiplex optical signals depending on the specific wavelengths and an optical reflector to reflect the de-multiplexed optical signals toward respective photodiodes, the optical de-multiplexer and the optical reflector being mounted on an upper base; anda housing having a bottom to install the first assembly and the second assembly thereon,wherein the sub-mount of the first assembly is directly mounted on the bottom and the upper base of the second assembly is indirectly mounted on the bottom through a lower base.2. The optical module of claim 1 ,wherein the upper base has a primary surface on which the optical de-multiplexer and the optical reflector are mounted extends substantially in parallel to the bottom of the housing.3. The optical module of claim 1 ,where the optical reflector, the concentrating lens, and the photodiode are vertically arranged with respect to the bottom of the housing.4. The optical module of claim 1 ,wherein the photodiodes are a type of an arrayed photodiode including a plurality of light-receiving ...

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04-07-2013 дата публикации

Converged pon for tdma-pon service based on ofdma-pon

Номер: US20130170837A1

A converged passive optical network (CPON) and a data transmission method are disclosed. The CPON is a combination of a time division multiple access-passive optical network (TDMA-PON) and an orthogonal frequency division multiple access-passive optical network (OFDMA-PON) and is able to dynamically controlling a bandwidth for upstream signal transmission through allocation of multiple subcarriers to each single optical network unit (ONU).

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11-07-2013 дата публикации

Photonic link information collection and advertisement systems and methods

Номер: US20130177311A1
Принадлежит: Ciena Corp

Photonic link information collection and advertisement systems and methods enable photonic nodes (e.g., optical amplifiers) to operate within a control plane system in a distributed and real-time manner. For example, the photonic nodes may not require full control plane protocol stacks at each photonic node. In particular, the systems and methods provide a distributed discovery method for photonic links without requiring full participation in the control plane at the photonic nodes. Additionally, the systems and methods include network databases with amplifier configuration information in a control plane enabled network.

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25-07-2013 дата публикации

Wavelength path multiplexing/demultiplexing apparatus and wavelength path multiplexing/demultiplexing method

Номер: US20130188950A1
Принадлежит: NEC Corp

In order to connect a path and a transponder with low loss, reduce an apparatus cost, reduce an apparatus size, and improve a reliability of an apparatus, a wavelength path multiplexing/demultiplexing apparatus comprises multiplexing/demultiplexing unit having a multiplexing port through which a wavelength multiplexed light is inputted and outputted and a demultiplexing port in which the wavelength multiplexed light is demultiplexed into the lights included in the wavelength multiplexed light based on the wavelength and through which the light is inputted and outputted and first switch unit which have a first port to which the demultiplexing port is connected and a second port and connect the second port to one of the first ports; and the demultiplexing port is connected to the first port of each of the first switch unit and the first port is connected to the demultiplexing port of each of the multiplexing/demultiplexing unit.

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25-07-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION METHOD

Номер: US20130188955A1
Автор: Sakata Tomoyuki
Принадлежит: FUJITSU LIMITED

There is provided an optical transmission device including: a packet disassembler configured to disassemble a packet into a plurality of signals having a different wavelength; an amplifier configured to amplify, for each of the wavelength, each signal into which the packet is disassembled by the packet disassembler, based on a correction value set for each wavelength; and a multiplexer configured to multiplex the respective signals amplified by the amplifier so as to transmit a packet generated by multiplexing the respective signals. 1. An optical transmission device comprising:a packet disassembler configured to disassemble a packet into a plurality of signals having a different wavelength;an amplifier configured to amplify, for each of the wavelength, each signal into which the packet is disassembled by the packet disassembler, based on a correction value set for each wavelength; anda multiplexer configured to multiplex the respective signals amplified by the amplifier so as to transmit a packet generated by multiplexing the respective signals.2. The optical transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein the correction value is set for each wavelength according to a route of the packet.3. The optical transmission device according to claim 2 , wherein the correction value is a current value of an exciting laser diode for the amplifier claim 2 , for tilt correction.4. An optical transmission method of an optical transmission device claim 2 , comprising:disassembling a packet into a plurality of optical signals having a different wavelength;amplifying, for each of the wavelength, each optical signal into which the packet is disassembled, based on a correction value set for each of the wavelength;multiplexing each of the amplified optical signals; andtransmitting a packet generated by multiplexing the amplified optical signals. This application is based upon and claims the benefit of priority of the prior Japanese Patent Application No. 2012-011249, filed on Jan. ...

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01-08-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL MULTIPLEXING USING LASER ARRAYS

Номер: US20130195456A1
Принадлежит:

An optical data system and method are disclosed. The system can be an integrated optical data transmission system that includes an array of lasers that are modulated by a plurality of modulation signals to provide a plurality of sets of optical data signals. Each of the optical data signals in each of the plurality of sets can have a distinct wavelength. The system can also include a wavelength division multiplexing system to combine each of the plurality of sets of optical data signals to generate a plurality of multi-channel optical data signals that are transmitted via a respective plurality of optical transmission media. 1. An integrated optical data transmission system comprising:an array of lasers that are modulated by a plurality of modulation signals to provide a plurality of sets of optical data signals, each of the optical data signals in each of the plurality of sets having a distinct wavelength; anda wavelength division multiplexing system to combine each of the plurality of sets of optical data signals to generate a plurality of multi-channel optical data signals that are transmitted from the integrated optical data transmission system via respective optical transmission media.2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the wavelength division multiplexing system comprises a solid optical medium comprising a first surface to which a wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) filter is coupled claim 1 , the solid optical medium being oriented at an angle with respect to the array of lasers to combine each of the plurality of sets of optical data signals by reflecting an optical data signal from a mirror coupled to a second surface of the solid optical medium spaced apart from and opposite the first surface and by reflecting the additional optical data signal from the WDM filter.3. The system of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of sets of optical data signals comprises a plurality of pairs of orthogonally polarized optical data signals claim 1 , each of the ...

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01-08-2013 дата публикации

WAVELENGTH PATH REALLOCATION METHOD AND UPPER LAYER PATH REALLOCATION METHOD

Номер: US20130195460A1

A wavelength path reallocation method in a path reallocation apparatus for reallocating a wavelength path set in a communication network, including: a wavelength path designing step in which a wavelength path designing unit designs a reallocation destination wavelength path by performing calculation such that the number of use frequency regions in the communication network becomes smaller than a corresponding value before reallocation; and a wavelength path setting step in which a wavelength path setting unit changes a reallocation target wavelength path to the reallocation destination wavelength path by using free wavelength. 1. A wavelength path reallocation method in a path reallocation apparatus for reallocating a wavelength path set in a communication network , comprising:a wavelength path designing step in which a wavelength path designing unit designs a reallocation destination wavelength path by performing calculation such that the number of use frequency regions in the communication network becomes smaller than a corresponding value before reallocation; anda wavelength path setting step in which a wavelength path setting unit changes a reallocation target wavelength path to the reallocation destination wavelength path by using a free wavelength.2. The wavelength path reallocation method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:an accommodation order determination step in which an accommodation order determining unit determines an accommodation order for changing the reallocation target wavelength path to the reallocation destination wavelength path by using a free wavelength,wherein the wavelength path setting step includes changing the reallocation target wavelength path to the reallocation destination wavelength path without instantaneous interruption based on the determined accommodation order.3. The wavelength path reallocation method as claimed in claim 2 , the accommodation order determination step comprising:when changing the reallocation target ...

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01-08-2013 дата публикации

ENERGY-EFFICIENT OPTICAL SOURCE

Номер: US20130195461A1
Принадлежит: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION

An optical source includes a set of N light sources that provide a corresponding set of N optical signals having N carrier wavelengths. These optical signals are combined into a seed optical signal and transported to a substrate using an optical fiber. This substrate includes a set of K optical amplifiers that amplify the seed optical signal and provide a set of M output optical signals on a corresponding set of M output optical waveguides (where M is less than K). In this way, a total power of the set of M output optical signals may be significantly larger than that of the seed optical signal, thereby ensuring that a majority of a power efficiency of the optical source is associated with power efficiencies of the set of K optical amplifiers instead of power efficiencies of the set of N light sources. 1. An optical source , comprising:a set of N light sources configured to provide a corresponding set of N optical signals having N carrier wavelengths, wherein a given light source is configured to provide a given optical signal having a given carrier wavelength; and an optical coupler configured to receive the set of N optical signals;', 'a set of K optical amplifiers optically coupled to the optical coupler, wherein the set of K optical amplifiers is configured to amplify the set of N optical signals and to provide a set of M output optical signals;', 'wherein the given output optical signal includes the set of N optical signals;', 'wherein M is less than K; and', 'wherein a total power of the set of M output optical signals exceeds a predefined multiple of a total power of the set of N optical signals, thereby ensuring that a majority of a power efficiency of the optical source is associated with power efficiencies of the set of K optical amplifiers instead of power efficiencies of the set of N light sources., 'a substrate, wherein the substrate includes2. The optical source of claim 1 , further comprising:an optical combiner, optically coupled to the set of N light ...

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01-08-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL TRANSMITTER AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING RESONANCE MODULATOR THAT IS THERMALLY COUPLED

Номер: US20130195463A1
Принадлежит: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

An optical transmitter for an optical communication system includes a light source that outputs optical signals having a plurality of wavelengths, and a wavelength control unit. The wavelength control unit receives an optical signal from the light source, resonates an optical signal having a first wavelength, modulates the optical signal of the first wavelength with a first transmission data signal to obtain an intensity modulated optical signal, and outputs the intensity modulated optical signal. The wavelength control unit may be integrally formed on a semiconductor substrate in which a high thermal conductivity material is used Alternatively, a trench that intercepts external heat may be formed in a boundary surface of the wavelength control unit, and may be filled with a low thermal conductivity material. 1. An optical transmitter comprising:a light source that outputs optical signals having a plurality of wavelengths; anda wavelength control unit that receives an optical signal from the light source, resonates an optical signal of the optical signals having a first wavelength, modulates the optical signal of the first wavelength with a first transmission data signal to obtain an intensity-modulated optical signal, and outputs the intensity-modulated optical signal,wherein the wavelength control unit is integrally formed on a semiconductor substrate in which a high thermal conductivity material is used.2. The optical transmitter of claim 1 , further comprising a coupler connected between the light source and the wavelength control unit that stabilizes an optical signal output from the light source to the first wavelength.3. The optical transmitter of claim 2 , wherein the wavelength control unit comprises:a first waveguide through which the optical signals received from the coupler is transmitted;a first prototype filter that resonates the optical signal received from the first waveguide to the first wavelength;a second waveguide that transmits the optical ...

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08-08-2013 дата публикации

Power recapture in an optical communications system

Номер: US20130202292A1

In an n-node optical communications system, energy harvesting photodetectors at each node receive extraneous electromagnetic wavelengths that are not used for communication or other purposes by the associated node. The energy harvesting photodetectors convert the unused electromagnetic energy into reusable electrical energy. The harvested electrical energy may be used as auxiliary power at the node or elsewhere in the communication system, or stored in a battery, capacitor, or other energy storage device. The system may be used in an “all-to-all” broadcast and select communication scheme or in some other broadcast and select interconnect system that has extraneous wavelengths at node receivers.

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15-08-2013 дата публикации

Optical line terminal for bidirectional wavelength-division-multiplexing optical network

Номер: US20130209094A1

The present disclosure relates to an optical line terminal, the disclosure includes: an optical transmitter for generating a low speed downstream optical signal; a wavelength-multiplexer for wavelength-multiplexing the downstream optical signal; a first optical power branching tap coupler for allowing wavelength-multiplexed downstream optical signal to branch off; a wavelength band separator/coupler for separating between the wavelength-multiplexed downstream optical signal and a wavelength-multiplexed upstream optical signal; a circulation type wavelength-demultiplexer for wavelength-demultiplexing a downstream optical signal branched off by the first optical power branching tap coupler and an upstream optical signal separated by the wavelength band separator/coupler; an optical receiver for outputting a downstream electrical signal by using the wavelength-demultiplexed optical signal; and a signal processing module for controlling an optical power and a wavelength of the optical transmitter according to a strength of the downstream electrical signal.

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15-08-2013 дата публикации

Subchannel Photonic Routing, Switching and Protection with Simplified Upgrades of WDM Optical Networks

Номер: US20130209095A1
Принадлежит: VELLO SYSTEMS, INC.

The present invention includes novel techniques, apparatus, and systems for optical WDM communications. Tunable lasers are employed to generate respective subcarrier frequencies which represent subchannels of an ITU channel to which client signals can be mapped. In one embodiment, subchannels are polarization interleaved to reduce crosstalk. In another embodiment, polarization multiplexing is used to increase the spectral density. Client circuits can be divided and combined with one another before being mapped, independent of one another, to individual subchannels within and across ITU channels. A crosspoint switch can be used to control the client to subchannel mapping, thereby enabling subchannel protection switching and hitless wavelength switching. Network architectures and subchannel transponders, muxponders and crossponders are disclosed, and techniques are employed (at the subchannel level/layer), to facilitate the desired optical routing, switching, concatenation and protection of the client circuits mapped to these subchannels across the nodes of a WDM network. 1. A system for adding polarization-multiplexed signals while maintaining orthogonality of polarizations at a node of an optical network , the system comprising:(a) a polarization recovery module that recovers the orthogonally polarized states of a plurality of incoming signals; and(b) a polarization-maintaining add coupler that aligns and matches the orthogonally polarized states of a plurality of added signals with the recovered polarization states of the incoming signals.2. The system of claim 1 , wherein linear orthogonal polarizations are employed.3. The system of claim 1 , further comprising polarization-maintaining components to facilitate polarization recovery and alignment.4. A system for dropping polarization-multiplexed signals while demultiplexing orthogonal polarizations at a node of an optical network claim 1 , the system comprising:(a) a polarization recovery module in the node that ...

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15-08-2013 дата публикации

DIGITAL SUBCARRIER OPTICAL NETWORK UTILIZING DIGITAL SUBCARRIER CROSS-CONNECTS WITH INCREASED ENERGY EFFICIENCY

Номер: US20130209101A1
Автор: Fumagalli Andrea, HUI Ron
Принадлежит:

The present invention provides reduced power dissipation and other benefits at the optical transport network layer by utilizing a digital subcarrier optical network comprising multiple digital subcarrier cross-connect switches. This offers several advantages for optical networks, including spectral efficiency and robustness against signal corruption and consumption of less energy than traditional TDM-based electric switches (OTN/SONET/SDH). 1. A method of transporting data along an optical network , the method comprising the steps of:(a) detecting an incoming optical signal on a particular wavelength and decomposing the optical signal into one or more radio-frequency signals, wherein each of the one or more radio-frequency signals has a destination;(b) directing the one or more radio-frequency signals via a radio-frequency crossbar circuit switch to an output circuit based on their destinations;(c) assigning the one or more radio-frequency signals to a new frequency;(d) grouping the one or more radio-frequency signals according to their destinations; and(e) modulating the one or more radio-frequency signals onto an outgoing optical signal.2. The method as set forth in claim 1 , wherein coherent detection is used to detect the incoming optical signal.3. The method as set forth in claim 1 , further including the step of assigning the one or more radio-frequency signals to one or more subcarrier channels.4. The method as set forth in claim 3 , wherein the subcarrier channels are static.5. The method as set forth in claim 3 , wherein the subcarrier channels are dynamically created and eliminated as needed.6. The method as set forth in claim 3 , further including the step of using one or more narrowband Nyquist filters to spectrally separate the subcarrier channels.7. The method as set forth in claim 3 , wherein one or more of the subcarrier channels is selected by tuning an optical local oscillator to a desired subcarrier frequency in a received optical spectrum claim 3 ...

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22-08-2013 дата публикации

SERVICE TRANSMISSION METHOD IN AN OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORK AND DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD

Номер: US20130215898A1
Автор: CAO Shiyi
Принадлежит: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd

Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a service transmission method and a device and a system for implementing the method. The method includes: recognizing a type of a received client service, encapsulating an OTN service, and generating an OTN signal frame or a lower order ODU; querying a tag forwarding base to acquire forwarding information of the OTN signal frame or the lower order ODU; acquiring tag information, and inserting the tag information into an overhead of the OTN signal frame or the lower order ODU; and forwarding the OTN signal frame according to the forwarding information. Therefore, in the embodiments of the present disclosure, the forwarding and the transmission of the service may be performed in an OTN plane only, thereby reducing hardware modules of an MPLS plane. 1. A service transmission method , comprising:receiving an optical transport network (OTN) signal frame sent by an upstream node, and extracting tag information from an overhead of the OTN signal frame;querying a tag forwarding base according to the tag information to acquire forwarding information of the OTN signal frame; andforwarding the OTN signal frame to a downstream node according to the forwarding information.2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein forwarding the OTN signal frame according to the forwarding information further comprises:demultiplexing a lower order optical channel data unit (ODU) from the OTN signal frame, and forwarding the lower order ODU according to the forwarding information.3. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:acquiring new tag information according to the forwarding information; andinserting the new tag information into an overhead of the forwarded OTN signal frame or lower order ODU to generate a new OTN signal frame, and transmitting the new OTN signal frame to the downstream node.4. The method according to claim 3 , further comprising:when an Internet protocol (IP) forwarding protocol is adopted, acquiring a new media ...

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22-08-2013 дата публикации

Method and device for obtaining routing information of electro-optical multi-layer network

Номер: US20130216223A1
Автор: Xie Gang
Принадлежит: ZTE CORPORATION

The present disclosure provides a method and device for obtaining the routing information of an electro-optical multi-layer network. The ports on which an optical transmitter and an optical receiver are located are determined, and the electro-optical conversion information is added to the routing information on a port of the optical layer node side or the electro layer node side on which the optical transmitter and the optical receiver are located. The electro-optical conversion information includes but is not limited to the wavelength tuning capability and signal processing capability. Through the extending of the current Multi-Layer Network (MLN) information model and Wavelength Switched Optical Network (WSON) information model, the present disclosure describes the routing information including the electro-optical conversion information of the present disclosure more accurately, and perfects the electro-optical multi-layer network information model, and improves the accuracy of the path calculation to reach the optimization. 1. A method for obtaining routing information of an electro-optical multi-layer network , comprising:determining ports on which an optical transmitter and an optical receiver are located; andadding electro-optical conversion information to the routing information on a port of an optical layer node side or an electro layer node side on which the optical transmitter and the optical receiver are located.2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the electro-optical multi-layer network does not include a mixed node claim 1 , and for a link between the optical layer node and the electro layer node claim 1 , the method comprises:adding the electro-optical conversion information to the routing information on the port of the optical layer node side when it is determined that the optical transmitter and the optical receiver are located on the port of the optical layer node side;adding the electro-optical conversion information to the routing ...

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22-08-2013 дата публикации

2-Step-Optimization Procedure for Routing and Wavelength Assignment with Combined Dedicated Shared Protections in Multi-Cable Multi-Fiber Optical WDM Networks

Номер: US20130216225A1
Принадлежит: NEC Laboratories America Inc

The inventive 2-step-optimization procedure that addresses the generalized routing and wavelength assignment problem with variable number of combined 1+1 dedicated and shared connections for the first time. The proposed procedure results a solution in time that is polynomial of the input size. Thus, the time complexity of the 2-step-optimization procedure is significantly less than that of existing methods.

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22-08-2013 дата публикации

FREQUENCY ASSIGNMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS

Номер: US20130216226A1

A frequency assignment method for selecting a frequency width used on a route connecting between a start point and an end point when the start point and the end point of an optical signal are supplied in a photonic network including an optical node that includes an optical switch for switching the optical signal without electrically terminating the optical signal is disclosed. The frequency assignment method includes steps of: obtaining a correlation amount of use state of wavelength or frequency between adjacent links by referring to a route calculation result; determining a fixed frequency width or variable frequency width to be set for a communication route based on the correlation amount; and assigning the fixed frequency width or the variable frequency width on the route. 1. A frequency assignment method for selecting a frequency width used on a route connecting between a start point and an end point when the start point and the end point of an optical signal are supplied in a photonic network including an optical node that includes an optical switch for switching the optical signal without electrically terminating the optical signal ,in an apparatus comprising: a calculation result storage unit configured to store a calculation result of a route and a frequency; a router unit configured to perform route calculation and store the route calculation result in the calculation result storage unit; and an assignment unit configured to assign a frequency width of the network,wherein, the assignment unit refers to the route calculation result of the calculation result storage unit, obtains a correlation amount of use state of wavelength or frequency between adjacent links, determines a fixed frequency width or variable frequency width to be set for a communication route based on the correlation amount, and assigns the fixed frequency width or the variable frequency width on the route.2. The frequency assignment method as claimed in claim 1 , comprising:an wavelength ...

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22-08-2013 дата публикации

RING NETWORK SETUP METHOD

Номер: US20130216227A1
Принадлежит: FUJITSU LIMITED

A network setup method used in a ring network including a plurality of transmission equipments. The method includes: transmitting a frame in the ring network; causing each of the transmission equipments to write an identifier to the frame according to a specified rule; determining whether or not a plurality of identifiers written to the frame by the plurality of transmission equipments satisfy a specified condition; and causing each of the transmission equipments to obtain a corresponding identifier according to the specified rule from among the plurality of identifiers, when the plurality of identifiers satisfy the specified condition. 1. A network setup method used in a ring network including a plurality of transmission equipments , the method comprising:transmitting a frame in the ring network;causing each of the transmission equipments to write an identifier to the frame according to a specified rule;determining whether or not a plurality of identifiers written to the frame by the plurality of transmission equipments satisfy a specified condition; andcausing each of the transmission equipments to obtain a corresponding identifier according to the specified rule from among the plurality of identifiers, when the plurality of identifiers satisfy the specified condition.2. The network setup method according to claim 1 , further comprisinggenerating topology information that represents a topology of the ring network based on an order where the plurality of identifiers are written to the frame.3. The network setup method according to claim 1 , further comprisingdetermining that the specified condition is satisfied when the plurality of identifiers written to the frame are different from each other.4. The network setup method according to claim 1 , further comprisingdetermining that the specified condition is satisfied when the number of the plurality of identifiers written to the frame is equal to or smaller than a specified allowable number.5. The network setup ...

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29-08-2013 дата публикации

Methods and Apparatus for Constructing Large Wavelength Selective Switches Using Parallelism

Номер: US20130223794A1
Автор: Mark E. Boduch
Принадлежит: Tellabs Operations Inc

Optical networks are increasingly employing optical network nodes having multiple interfaces to allow a node to direct optical signals received at any interface to any other interface connected to the node. Constructing a larger wavelength selective switching (WSS) module used in such a node can be complex and expensive. A method an apparatus for constructing a large WSS using parallelism is provided. In example embodiments, a larger WSS may include multiple parallel non-cascaded smaller WSSs and an optical coupler configured to optically couple the multiple parallel, non-cascaded smaller WSSs. This technique may be used to construct both N×1 and 1×N WSSs. Because the technique employs multiple parallel, non-cascaded WSSs, all inputs of a larger N×1 WSS and all outputs of a larger 1×N WSS are available receive or transmit external signals rather than being rather than being unavailable due to, for example, cascading smaller WSS devices together.

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29-08-2013 дата публикации

NYQUIST WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING SYSTEM

Номер: US20130223843A1
Принадлежит: ZTE (USA) INC.

Aspects of the present invention include apparatus and methods for transmitting and receiving signals in communication systems. A beam splitter splits an optical signal into a plurality of signals. At least one QPSK modulator generates a plurality of QPSK modulated signals from the plurality of signals. An optical multiplexer combines the plurality of QPSK modulated signals into a multiplexed signal. The multiplexed signal is then transmitted. 1. A method of transmitting an optical signal , the method comprising:splitting the optical signal into a plurality of signals;generating, by at least one Quadrature Phase Shift Key (QPSK) modulator, a plurality of QPSK modulated signals;combining, by an optical multiplexer, the plurality of QPSK modulated signals into a multiplexed signal; andtransmitting the multiplexed signal.2. The method of wherein the QPSK modulator comprises cascaded modulators.3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the combining comprises spectrum shaping and multiplexing the plurality of QPSK modulated signals.4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the optical multiplexer is a wavelength-selective switch (WSS) filter.5. A method for receiving signals in an optical communication system comprising:demultiplexing a received multiplexed signal to demultiplexed signals; andcoherently detecting the demultiplexed signals.6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the coherently detecting comprises realizing chromatic dispersion compensation.7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the coherently detecting comprises post-filtering equalized signals.8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the coherently detecting comprises maximum likelihood sequence estimating the post-filtered equalized signals.9. An apparatus for transmitting an optical signal claim 7 , the method comprising:means for splitting a signal into a plurality of signals;means for generating a plurality of QPSK modulated signals;means for combining the plurality of QPSK modulated signals into a multiplexed signal; andmeans ...

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05-09-2013 дата публикации

Exchange device

Номер: US20130230315A1
Автор: Masahiro Sarashina
Принадлежит: Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd

The exchange device groups PON branches into PON branch groups based on the amount of communication data traffic that has arrived via a communication network with a plurality of optical network units (ONUs) respectively belonging to one of a plurality of PON branches as a transmission destination, multiplexes the communication data for each PON group, and transmits the multiplexed data. The exchange device has an unit configured to transmit each piece of communication data from the ONUs to one output port selected from among a plurality of output ports based on the transmission wavelength of the communication data. The exchange device groups a plurality of PON branches into PON branch groups based on the required bandwidth of each of the ONUs, and designates the transmission wavelength for each of the ONUs so that each piece of the communication data from one PON branch group is transmitted to one port.

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05-09-2013 дата публикации

Port Wavelength Restriction Encoding in Wavelength Switched Optical Network

Номер: US20130230321A1
Принадлежит: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

An apparatus comprising a path computation element (PCE) coupled to a path computation client (PCC) and configured to perform a path computation using port wavelength restriction information for a network element (NE), wherein the port wavelength restriction information is encoded and received in a port wavelength restriction Type-Length-Value (TLV) that comprises a matrix identifier (ID), a restriction type, and the port wavelength restriction information. Also disclosed is a network component comprising at least one processor coupled to a memory and configured to receive a port wavelength restriction information TLV that corresponds to a NE, and obtain a restriction type and port wavelength restriction information based on the restriction type from the port wavelength restriction TLV, and use the port wavelength restriction information to calculate a path for the NE. 1. A method comprising:receiving, by a path computation element (PCE), information needed to perform a routing and label assignment process in a wavelength switched optical network (WSON),wherein the information is encoded in a Port label restriction Type-Length-Value (TLV) that indicates the labels that may be used on a link, andwherein the TLV comprises a Matrix identifier (ID) field that indicates a value of a corresponding Connectivity Matrix TLV or indicates that a restriction applies to a port regardless of any Connectivity Matrix TLV.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the Matrix ID field is set to 0xFF to indicate that the restriction applies to the port regardless of any Connectivity Matrix TLV.3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the TLV further comprises a Restriction Type field that takes a value of zero to indicate a simple label restriction.4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the TLV further comprises a Label Set field that indicates the labels permitted on the port.5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the TLV further comprises a Restriction Type field that takes the value of one to indicate a ...

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05-09-2013 дата публикации

MULTI-CHASSIS ROUTER WITH MULTIPLEXED OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS

Номер: US20130230322A1
Автор: SINDHU Pradeep
Принадлежит: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.

A multi-chassis network device includes a plurality of nodes that operate as a single device within the network and a switch fabric that forwards data plane packets between the plurality of nodes. The switch fabric includes a set of multiplexed optical interconnects coupling the nodes. For example, a multi-chassis router includes a plurality of routing nodes that operate as a single router within a network and a switch fabric that forwards packets between the plurality of routing nodes. The switch fabric includes at least one multiplexed optical interconnect coupling the routing nodes. The nodes of the multi-chassis router may direct portions of the optical signal over the multiplexed optical interconnect to different each other using wave-division multiplexing. 1. A multi-chassis device comprising:a plurality of nodes that operate as a single device within a network; anda switch fabric that forwards packets between the plurality of nodes,wherein the switch fabric includes at least one multiplexed optical interconnect coupling the nodes,wherein the switch fabric is a multi-stage switch fabric and the multiplexed optical interconnect provides a connection between at least two stages in the multi-stage switch fabric, andwherein each of the plurality of nodes comprises an optical emitter that emits a multiplexed optical signal for forwarding packets from a first stage of the switch fabric at a transmitting one of the nodes to a second stage of the switch fabric at the other nodes.2. The multi-chassis device of claim 1 , wherein the multiplexed optical interconnect includes optical taps that distribute an optical signal from the transmitting one of the nodes to the other nodes.3. The multi-chassis device of claim 2 , wherein the optical taps distribute substantially equal portions of the optical signal from the transmitting node to each of the other nodes.4. The multi-chassis device of claim 1 ,wherein the multi-chassis device has N nodes, andwherein the multiplexed ...

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05-09-2013 дата публикации

Passive Optical Network Digital Subscriber Line Convergence Architecture

Номер: US20130230324A1
Автор: Sanjay Gupta
Принадлежит: FutureWei Technologies Inc

A method of communicating using an optical line terminal (OLT), the method comprising acquiring encapsulated data by a digital subscriber line (DSL) physical media specific transmission convergence (PMS-TC) sublayer from a protocol specific transmission convergence (TPS-TC) sublayer, and framing the encapsulated data into a frame by the PMS-TC sublayer for transmission to a corresponding PMS-TC sublayer in a customer premises equipment (CPE).

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05-09-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION MODULE

Номер: US20130230327A1
Автор: Shin Hyunee
Принадлежит: OPTICIS CO., LTD.

The present invention relates to an optical communication module, which includes: a first bidirectional multiplexer; a second bidirectional multiplexer; an optical fiber for connecting the first bidirectional multiplexer and the second bidirectional multiplexer to each other; one or more first light emitting devices connecting to the first bidirectional multiplexer, and operating in a first light emitting wavelength band; one or more first light receiving devices connecting to the first bidirectional multiplexer, and operating in a first light receiving wavelength band; one or more second light receiving devices connecting to the second bidirectional multiplexer, and operating in a second light receiving wavelength band; and one or more second light emitting devices connecting to the second bidirectional multiplexer, and operating in a second light emitting wavelength band. The second light emitting wavelength band includes the first light receiving wavelength band, and the first light emitting wavelength band includes the second light receiving wavelength band. The first light receiving wavelength band is different from the second light receiving wavelength band. 1. An optical communication module comprising:a first bi-directional multiplexer;a second bi-directional multiplexer;an optical fiber connecting the first bi-directional multiplexer and the second bi-directional multiplexer;at least one of first light emitting devices connected to the first bi-directional multiplexer and operating in a first light emitting wavelength band;at least one of first light receiving devices connected to the second bi-directional multiplexer and operating in a first light receiving wavelength band;at least one of second light emitting devices connected to the second bi-directional multiplexer and operating in a second light emitting wavelength band that is different from the first light emitting wavelength band; andat least one of second light receiving devices connected to the ...

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12-09-2013 дата публикации

MULTI-POINT CONTROL PROTOCOL PROXY ARCHITECTURE IN A NETWORK WITH OPTICAL AND COAXIAL DOMAINS

Номер: US20130236178A1
Принадлежит: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED

A method of registering a coax network unit (CNU) in a network is performed at an optical-coax unit (OCU). In the method, a first discovery message is broadcasted to a plurality of CNUs. In response, a first registration request is received from a first CNU of the plurality of CNUs. In response to the first registration request, a proxy entity corresponding to the first CNU is implemented in the OCU. A second discovery message is received from an optical line terminal (OLT). In response to the second discovery message, a second registration request is transmitted to the OLT requesting registration of the proxy entity with the OLT. 1. A method comprising , at an optical-coax unit (OCU):broadcasting a first discovery message to a plurality of coax network units (CNUs);in response to the first discovery message, receiving a first registration request from a first CNU of the plurality of CNUs;in response to the first registration request, creating a first proxy entity corresponding to the first CNU;receiving a second discovery message from an optical line terminal (OLT); andin response to the second discovery message, transmitting a second registration request to the OLT requesting registration of the first proxy entity with the OLT.2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving a registration message at the OCU from the OLT in response to the second registration request claim 1 , wherein the registration message specifies one or more logical link identifiers (LLIDs) for the first proxy entity.3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the one or more LLIDs comprise a plurality of LLIDs corresponding to different levels of service.4. The method of claim 2 , further comprising forwarding the registration message claim 2 , including the one or more LLIDs claim 2 , from the OCU to the first CNU.5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising claim 4 , at the OCU:receiving a gate message from the OLT following the registration message;in response to the gate message, ...

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12-09-2013 дата публикации

PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK USER TERMINAL AND METHOD OF POWER SUPPLY CONTROL AND POWER SUPPLY STATE REPORTING FOR THE SAME

Номер: US20130236179A1
Автор: Dong Yinghua, GAO Hai
Принадлежит: Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.

The present disclosure discloses a method, wherein the method comprises generating a passive optical network (PON) protocol message, wherein the PON protocol message comprises an identifier of a PON user terminal and an action indication indicating that the PON user terminal intends to exercise a first power supply mode that is a power-saving mode. The present disclosure further provides a method for controlling the PON power supply and for reporting the power supply state. The present disclosure allows control of the energy usage of the PON user terminal to save power when a service in the PON user terminal is not used or when the user terminal uses a backup pow 1. A method , comprising:generating a passive optical network (PON) protocol message, wherein the PON protocol message comprises an identifier of a PON user terminal and an action indication indicating that the PON user terminal intends to exercise a first power supply mode that is a power-saving mode, wherein the first power supply mode is operated at lower power than a power provided in a second power supply mode, wherein in the second power supply mode, a power supply is provided to the PON user terminal such that the PON user terminal can provide service data from an optical line termination (OLT) to a user and communicate with the OLT via an established upstream connection;sending the PON protocol message.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein in the first power supply mode claim 1 , the PON user terminal is inactive in providing service data to the user.3. The method of claim 1 , wherein in the first power supply mode claim 1 , an upstream PON interface unit (PONIU) of the PON user terminal is turned off and the established upstream connection is disconnected claim 1 , and the PON user terminal is configured to detect whether the upstream PONIU is reactivated and an upstream connection with the OLT is reestablished.4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:sending another PON protocol message from the ...

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19-09-2013 дата публикации

Communication system and method therefor

Номер: US20130243428A1
Принадлежит: Fujitsu Ltd

A frame transmitting apparatus includes a transmitting unit which transmits, when a change is made to a value in a predetermined field of a frame, the frame including the predetermined field with the changed value a predetermined number of times in succession. A frame receiving apparatus includes a receiving unit which receives the frame and an acceptance processing unit which recognizes the value in the predetermined field of the received frame and conducts acceptance processing. The acceptance processing unit compares, when the value is different from a currently accepted value, the value with an expected value; accepts the value when the value matches the expected value; and accepts, when the value does not match the expected value, the value after receiving the same value the predetermined number of times in succession.

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19-09-2013 дата публикации

TRANSPONDER AND RELATED NETWORK NODE FOR AN OPTICAL TRANSMISSION NETWORK

Номер: US20130243431A1
Принадлежит:

In order to reduce power consumption in network equipment for optical transmission networks, it is proposed by reducing E/O conversion and signal processing in optical networks when not needed. A network node has two or more line cards. Each line card contains a receive side transponder section with a network side optical receiver, a first electrical section, and a client side optical transmitter and a transmit side transponder section with a network side optical transmitter, a second electrical section, and a client side optical receiver. The first electrical section has at least one intermediate electrical output the second electrical section has at least one intermediate electrical input. The intermediate electrical outputs and inputs lead to an electrical switch matrix, which controllably interconnects the intermediate electrical outputs and inputs. Preferably, the transponders can additionally contain second intermediate electrical outputs and inputs additionally bypassing a Forward-Error-Correction processing function in the line cards 1. An optical network node comprising two or more line cards , each line card comprising a receive side optical transponder section comprising a network side optical receiver for single wavelength optical signals , a first electrical section , and a client side optical transmitter and a transmit side optical transponder section comprising a network side optical transmitter for single wavelength optical signals , a second electrical section , and a client side optical receiver , wherein said first electrical section comprises at least one intermediate electrical output and wherein said second electrical section comprises at least one intermediate electrical input; said optical network node further comprising an electrical switch matrix for controllably interconnecting said intermediate electrical outputs and said intermediate electrical inputs of said line cards.2. An optical network node according to claim 1 , comprising a ...

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26-09-2013 дата публикации

WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXER/DEMULTIPLEXER APPARATUS

Номер: US20130250977A1
Автор: Chen Long
Принадлежит: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.

An apparatus comprising an optical multiplexer/demultiplexer having a set of input ports and a set of output ports, the optical multiplexer/demultiplexer configured to demultiplex a wavelength division multiplexed optical signal to one port of the set of input ports, and to output a plurality of demultiplexed wavelength channels to one of a plurality of subsets of output ports within the set of output ports. The apparatus comprises an optical switch configured to route the wavelength division multiplexed signal to a selected one of the input ports, thereby causing the plurality of demultiplexed wavelength channels to be output by the optical multiplexer/demultiplexer to selected ones of the plurality of subsets of output ports. 1. An apparatus , comprising:an optical multiplexer/demultiplexer having a set of input ports and a set of output ports, the optical multiplexer/demultiplexer configured to demultiplex a wavelength division multiplexed optical signal to one port of the set of input ports, and to output a plurality of demultiplexed wavelength channels to one of a plurality of subsets of output ports within the set of output ports; andan optical switch configured to route the wavelength division multiplexed signal to a selected one of the input ports, thereby causing the plurality of demultiplexed wavelength channels to be output by the optical multiplexer/demultiplexer to selected ones of the plurality of subsets of output ports.2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the optical switch is configured as an optical space switch having an input switch port and a plurality of output switch ports claim 1 , wherein the input switch port is configured to receive the wavelength division multiplexed optical signal and the plurality of output switch ports are configured to transmit the wavelength division multiplexed optical signal to one of the set of the input ports of the optical multiplexer/demultiplexer.3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the optical switch ...

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26-09-2013 дата публикации

Method And Apparatus For Displaying A Three Dimensional Representation Of Available Wavelength Paths Across A Network

Номер: US20130251360A1
Принадлежит: Tellabs Operations Inc

Due to demand for more network bandwidth, a need for multi-user optical network topologies has, and will continue to, increase. A method or corresponding apparatus in embodiments of the present invention provide for an availability determination tool for determining and displaying wavelength and subrate availabilities within a network. Benefits of embodiments of a tool include allowing a user to identify the availability and capacity of any wavelength on any network, via an interactive graphical user interface, such as by using three-dimensional representations. In one embodiment, the disclosed availability determination tool allows users to locate and view any combination of available wavelengths between nodes in an optical network topology, and generate graphical and tabular reports of the availability in order to maintain an efficient and organized method or apparatus for determining and controlling wavelengths in a network. Consequently, service providers using the tool can keep performance rates high and costs low.

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26-09-2013 дата публикации

Method for operating an optical transmission system

Номер: US20130251364A1
Принадлежит: ADVA Optical Networking SE

An optical transmission system method including generating for a tunable laser a pilot tone having an adjustable pilot tone frequency identifying a wavelength division multiplexing channel used by the tunable laser; multiplying the pilot tone with pilot tone data to provide a pilot tone data signal; supplying the pilot tone data signal and a high frequency data signal to the tunable laser generating an optical laser signal output by the tunable laser responsive to the supplied signals; transporting the optical laser signal to a central wavelength to locker; converting the received optical laser signal to provide a pilot tone data signal for wavelength division multiplexing channels demodulated to detect the pilot tone and the pilot tone data for each individual wavelength division multiplexing channel; and identifying the wavelength division multiplexing channel on the basis of the pilot tone frequency of the detected pilot tone and evaluating the pilot tone data.

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03-10-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL LINE TERMINAL AND OPTICAL NETWORK UNIT

Номер: US20130259468A1

An optical line terminal which includes an observing unit that observes information of any one or all of an arrival interval of frames, an instantaneous bandwidth under use of a flow, a queue length of a queue temporarily storing the frames, and a traffic type, and a stop determining unit that dynamically determines a sleep time to be a period in which a sleep state where partial functions of the ONU are stopped is maintained, on the basis of the information obtained by the observing unit. The ONU is entered into a sleep state, immediately after communication ends, after a predetermined waiting time passes from when the communication ends, or after a waiting time determined on the basis of the information passes from when the communication ends. 1. An optical network unit that is used in an optical network in which one optical line terminal (OLT) performs point-to-point or point-to-multi-point communication with one or more optical network units (ONU) through an optical fiber transmission path and saves power of the optical network , the optical network unit including:an observing unit that observes a traffic amount in a first predetermined time and existence or non-existence of traffic of one or more specific types in the first predetermined time;a stop determining unit that determines whether partial functions of the ONU are stopped, on the basis of the traffic amount and the existence or non-existence of the traffic of the specific types observed by the observing unit; anda stopping unit that stops the partial functions of the ONU for a second predetermined time, when the stop determining unit determines the stop of the partial functions.2. The optical network unit of claim 1 ,wherein the stop determining unit has a function of determining the non-stop of the partial functions, when the traffic amount observed by the observing unit is equal to or smaller than a threshold value but the traffic of the specific types exists.3. The optical network unit of claim 1 , ...

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03-10-2013 дата публикации

Optical transmission apparatus

Номер: US20130259473A1
Автор: Yasuki Fujii
Принадлежит: Fujitsu Ltd

In an optical transmission apparatus, a path information table stores paths set in a network and wavelength channel information on the paths. A controller searches for an apparatus which performs route switching of paths using a plurality of grouped wavelength channels, based on fault information on the network detected by the optical transmission apparatus, fault information on the network detected by other optical transmission apparatus, and the paths and wavelength channel information on the paths stored in the path information table. When determining that the number of operating paths is maximized by performing the route switching of the paths in the optical transmission apparatus, the controller performs the route switching of the paths.

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03-10-2013 дата публикации

CLIENT SIGNAL MAPPING CIRCUIT AND MAPPING METHOD

Номер: US20130259481A1

A client signal mapping circuit for accommodating a client signal in a transmission frame, including: a buffer unit configured to temporarily store the client signal; a buffer used amount monitoring unit configured to report a used amount of the buffer unit; a stuff processing determination unit configured to compare the used amount of the buffer unit with a predetermined reference value, and a pseudo random sequence signal and the comparison result; an overhead insertion unit configured to add an overhead to the client signal read from the buffer unit to form a transmission frame; and a reading control unit configured to perform control for reading the client signal from the buffer unit based on determination by the stuff processing determination unit. 1. A client signal mapping circuit for accommodating a client signal in a transmission frame , comprising:a buffer unit configured to temporarily store the client signal;a buffer used amount monitoring unit configured to report a used amount of the buffer unit;a stuff processing determination unit configured to determine necessity of insertion of a stuff byte into a transmission frame and a stuff processing amount based on the used amount of the buffer unit;an overhead insertion unit configured to add an overhead to the client signal read from the buffer unit to form a transmission frame; anda reading control unit configured to perform control for reading the client signal from the buffer unit based on determination by the stuff processing determination unit,the stuff processing determination unit comprising:a comparison unit configured to compare the buffer used amount reported from the buffer used amount monitoring unit with a predetermined reference value;a pseudo random sequence generation unit configured to output a pseudo random sequence signal; anda first adding unit configured to add the pseudo random sequence signal and the comparison result output from the comparison unit.2. The client signal mapping ...

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03-10-2013 дата публикации

RECEIVERS AND TRANSCEIVERS FOR OPTICAL MULTIBUS SYSTEMS

Номер: US20130259483A1

This disclosure is directed to optical-to-electrical receiver and transceiver integrated circuits that can be used to send and receive multiple optical signal data streams using at least one optical bus. In one aspect, a fan-in integrated circuit of a node includes an arbiter/multiplexer, and at least one receiver. Each receiver is electronically connected to the arbiter/multiplexer. Each receiver receives at least one optical signal over an optical broadcast bus and converts the optical signals into a data stream encoded in electronic signals. The arbiter/multiplexer selects one receiver at a time to send an electronic signal to the arbiter/multiplexer and outputs the electronic signal to the node for processing. 1. A fan-in integrated circuit of a node comprising:an arbiter/multiplexer; andat least one receiver, each receiver electronically connected to the arbiter/multiplexer, wherein each receiver receives optical signals over an optical broadcast bus and converts the optical signals into a data stream encoded in electronic signals, and wherein the arbiter/multiplexer selects one receiver at a time to send the electronic signals to the arbiter/multiplexer which outputs the electronic signals to the node for processing.2. The integrated circuit of claim 1 , wherein the arbiter/multiplexer further comprises an arbiter that determines which receiver is permitted to send electronic signals to the arbiter/multiplexer.3. The integrated circuit of claim 1 , wherein a receiver further comprises:an array of photodetectors, each photodetector receives and converts one of the optical signals into analog electronic signals;a trans-impedance amplifier (“TIA”) array, each TIA is electronically connected to a photodetector and amplifies the analog electronic signals output from the photodetector;a sampler array, each sampler electronically connected to a TIA of the TIA array and converts the analog electronic signals into digital electronic signals; andan address filter ...

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10-10-2013 дата публикации

Architecture for Reconfigurable Quantum Key Distribution Networks Based on Entangled Photons by Wavelength Division Multiplexing

Номер: US20130266144A1
Принадлежит: AT&T Intellectual Property II LP

A system and method for securing communications over a wave division multiplexing optical network between a plurality of users connected to the network. The system utilizes a primary optical source generator that is either tunable, or capable of generating a plurality of wavebands of different frequencies equal to the sum of wavebands serving individual users of the network to facilitate a key exchange between the individual users of the network using summed wavebands, each of which serving an individual user.

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10-10-2013 дата публикации

Method for routing and spectrum assignment

Номер: US20130266316A1
Автор: Ming Xia, Stefan Dahlfort
Принадлежит: Individual

Methods and apparatus are disclosed for performing a spectrum assignment and route selection algorithm in an optical WDM network. The optical WDM is assigned an optical band of frequencies. In accordance to the present invention, a new spectrum assignment in the optical band always adjoins a spectrum assignment previously allocated. The very first spectrum assignment may be made to start with one end frequency in the optical band. Given a spectrum demand, one or more spectrum assignments are identified and one or more feasible routes are determined. Among the one or more feasible routes, an optimal route may be selected based on a set of pre-defined criteria. The spectrum assignment and route selection algorithm disclosed herein reduces computational complexities and improves spectrum efficiencies.

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17-10-2013 дата публикации

System and method for shared mesh restoration in optical networks

Номер: US20130272693A1
Принадлежит: Fujitsu Ltd

A method for shared mesh restoration includes configuring a switch to allow sharing of a plurality of backup line cards across a plurality of node degrees associated with a reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM). The switch is communicatively coupled to the ROADM. The method further includes configuring a number of backup line cards coupled to the switch. The number of backup line cards is based on determining a number of active backup lightpaths for each of a plurality of network failures associated with each of the plurality of node degrees of the ROADM, identifying which node degree and failure has the largest number of active backup lightpaths for all of the plurality of node degrees of the ROADM and for each of the plurality of network failures, and determining the number of backup line cards to configure based on the identified largest number of active backup lightpaths.

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17-10-2013 дата публикации

RANGING METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK

Номер: US20130272699A1
Автор: Liang Xuanqin
Принадлежит:

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a ranging method for a passive optical network, including: allocating ranging bandwidth to at least two optical network terminals ONTs and providing ranging bandwidth information for the at least two ONTs by using a same downlink frame; opening a quiet window for suspending uplink sending of other ONTs in a ranging process of the at least two ONTs; and receiving ranging responses of the at least two ONTs in the quiet window and calculating ranging results of the at least two ONTs according to the ranging responses of the at least two ONTs. The embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a ranging apparatus for a passive optical network and a passive optical network system. 1. A method for a passive optical network (PON) , comprising:allocating ranging bandwidth to at least two optical network terminals (ONTs) and providing ranging bandwidth information for the at least two ONTs by using a same downlink frame;opening a quiet window for suspending uplink sending of other ONTs in a ranging process of the at least two ONTs; andreceiving ranging responses of the at least two ONTs in the quiet window and calculating ranging results of the at least two ONTs according to the ranging responses of the at least two ONTs.2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising: determining the number of ONTs for which ranging needs to be performed under a PON port claim 1 , wherein the number of ONTs for which ranging needs to be performed is greater than or equal to two.3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the ONTs for which ranging needs to be performed are ONTs that newly connect to the PON port claim 2 , and the determining the number of ONTs for which ranging needs to be performed under a PON port comprises:requesting, by sending through the PON port a serial number request message to the ONT, an ONT that newly connects to the PON port to send an ONT serial number; andreceiving the ONT serial number sent by the ...

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17-10-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL NETWORK

Номер: US20130272707A1
Принадлежит:

An optical network includes a first passive optical network optical line terminal that transmits a first optical signal at a first wavelength, coupled to a first port of a first optical filter arrangement, and a second passive optical network optical line terminal that transmits a second optical signal at a second, different wavelength, coupled to a second port of the first optical filter arrangement. An optical coupler, connected between the second terminal and the second port of the first optical filter, couples optical signals at a predetermined set of wavelengths from a third optical line terminal into the second port. A passive optical distribution node connects to optical network terminations and distributes optical signals between the optical line terminals and the optical network terminations. A method of provisioning an optical network is also described. 1. An optical network comprising:a first passive optical network optical line terminal arranged to transmit a first optical signal at a first wavelength, coupled to a first port of a first optical filter arrangement;a second passive optical network optical line terminal arranged to transmit a second optical signal at a second, different wavelength, coupled to a second port of the first optical filter arrangement;an optical coupler connected between the second passive optical network line terminal and the second port of the first optical filter arrangement, for coupling a plurality of optical signals at a predetermined set of wavelengths from a third optical line terminal into said second port; anda passive optical distribution node for connection to a plurality of optical network terminations, coupled to a third port of the first optical filter arrangement for distribution of optical signals between the optical line terminals and said plurality of optical network terminations, whereinthe first optical filter arrangement is arranged to pass optical signals at said first wavelength between the first port and ...

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17-10-2013 дата публикации

Light-Tree Provisioning for Multicast Traffic in Flexible Optical WDM Networks

Номер: US20130272711A1
Принадлежит: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.

Hybrid application of the generic evolution and simulated annealing methods are used to solve routing, wavelength assignment, and spectrum allocation sub-problems of a light-tree establishment problem in a flexible wavelength division multiplexing FWDM optical network. 3. The method of claim 1 , wherein said genetic evolution procedure comprises generation of an auxiliary set of traffic demands where claim 1 , initially claim 1 , an auxiliary set of traffic demands are constructed from said given set of traffic demands claim 1 , for each given demand R(s claim 1 , D claim 1 , r) claim 1 , a rate selection procedure being used to determine an optimal set of line rates Lthat supports the requested data rate such that the total required spectrum is minimized and a set of auxiliary demands R′(s claim 1 , D claim 1 , l) being generated by considering each line rate l ∈ Lbetween the same source node and the same set of destination nodes of the demand R.4. The method of claim 1 , wherein said genetic evolution procedure comprises population generation claim 1 , said population being a set of said chromosomes claim 1 , once auxiliary demands are generated claim 1 , for each auxiliary demand claim 1 , a Steiner tree is randomly selected out of K-alternate Steiner trees of the demand as a gene to form a chromosome claim 1 , each chromosome including a tree for each auxiliary traffic demand claim 1 , and the number of chromosomes representing the population size.6. The method of claim 1 , wherein said genetic evolution procedure comprises a crossover of selected parent chromosomes for bringing diversity in a population of chromosomes claim 1 , responsive to a given crossover ratio a number of chromosome segments being selected randomly and said selected segments being exchanged between parent chromosomes for generating new children chromosomes.7. The method of claim 1 , wherein said genetic evolution procedure comprises a mutation for increasing diversity in a population of ...

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24-10-2013 дата публикации

Reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer network element for c-band and l-band optical signals

Номер: US20130279908A1
Принадлежит: Tellabs Operations Inc

A method for routing C-band and L-band optical signals, and a system, apparatus, and computer program that operate in accordance with the method. The method comprises selecting one or more C-band optical signals using one or more C-band components, resulting in one or more selected C-band optical signals. One or more L-band optical signals are selected using one or more L-band components, resulting in one or more selected L-band optical signals. The selected C-band and L-band optical signals are combined.

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31-10-2013 дата публикации

Passive Optical Network Arrangement and Method

Номер: US20130287396A1
Принадлежит: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)

This disclosure relates to wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) passive optical networks (PON), and the transmission of point-to-point and broadcast or multicast channels from an optical line transmitter (OLT) to an optical network unit (ONU). There is provided a WDM PON () comprising: an OLT () coupled to a plurality of ONU () using an optical fibre network (); the OLT () having one or more WDM transceivers () each arranged to receive multi-cast and point-to-point channels and wherein the or each WDM transceiver () is arranged to transmit a said channel to a respective said ONU () using a respective dedicated wavelength (λa, λb); an input channel switch () associated with the or each WDM transceiver () and arranged to selectively couple the input of the WDM transceiver to the multi-cast channels and the point-to-point channels (); wherein the selected multi-cast or point-to-point channels are directly converted to the respective dedicated wavelength. 1. A wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) passive optical network (PON) , comprising:an optical line transmitter (OLT) comprising a WDM transceiver apparatus communicatively connected to a first optical network unit (ONU) via an optical fibre network and communicatively connected to a second ONU via the optical fibre network, wherein the WDM transceiver apparatus is operable to receive multi-cast data or point-to-point data, and wherein the WDM transceiver apparatus is arranged to transmit multi-cast data or point-to-point data to said first ONU using an optical signal having a first wavelength and is further arranged to transmit multi-cast data or point-to-point data to said second ONU using an optical signal having a second wavelength; andan input channel switch apparatus connected to the WDM transceiver apparatus and arranged to i) selectively couple the first ONU to a source of multi-cast data or to a source of point-to-point data and ii) selectively couple the second ONU to a source of multi-cast data or to a ...

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31-10-2013 дата публикации

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR UNIFYING FRAME RATES

Номер: US20130287401A1
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The present disclosure provides a method and device for unifying frame rates. The method includes: increasing rate on at least one of OTU frames that have different frame rates, so that the OTU frames can be processed at a receiving end by using a clock signal of a same frequency point; and after the rate increasing is performed, sending, on a wavelength division line, the OTU frames that have different frame rates. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a same local crystal oscillator may be used at the receiving end to provide a clock signal for received wavelength division service frames. 1. A method for unifying frame rates , comprising:increasing rate on at least one of optical channel transport unit (OTU) frames that have different frame rates, so that the OTU frames can be processed at a receiving end by using a clock signal of a same frequency point; andafter the rate increasing is performed, sending, on a wavelength division line, the OTU frames that have different frame rates.2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the OTU frames that have different frame rates are an OTU3 frame and an OTU3e2 frame claim 1 , and increasing rate on at least one of OTU frames that have different frame rates comprises:increasing rate on the OTU3 frame, so that the OTU3 frame obtained after the rate increasing can be processed at the receiving end by using a clock signal that performs processing on the OTU3e2 frame.3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein increasing rate on the OTU3 frame comprises:encapsulating the OTU3 frame into an OTU3 stuff frame, wherein a frame rate of the OTU3 stuff frame is is 57/55 times of a frame rate of the OTU3 frame.4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein encapsulating the OTU3 frame into an OTU3 stuff frame comprises:filling a part between a first bit part and a second bit part of the OTU3 frame with stuff bits, wherein the number of bits in the first bit part is 28*64, the number of bits in the second bit part is 27* ...

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07-11-2013 дата публикации

Optical transmission device and optical transmission method

Номер: US20130294762A1
Автор: Ayumu Nonaka
Принадлежит: Fujitsu Ltd

An optical transmission device includes: a switching configured to be capable of switching a transmission path to which light is input from a first transmission path to a second transmission path; a first calculation unit configured to calculate, based on a difference between a first light level of the first transmission path and a second light level of the second transmission path, a first control amount for the second light level; and a control unit configured to perform a first control in which the second light level is decreased or increased based on the first control amount upon switching of the transmission path.

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07-11-2013 дата публикации

EPON With Power-Saving Features

Номер: US20130294775A1
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A system and method for reducing power consumption in a Passive Optic Network (PON). The system comprises an optical line terminal (OLT), an optical network unit (ONU), a traffic-detection module configured to detect status of traffic to and from the ONU, and a power-management module configured to place the ONU in sleep mode based on the detected traffic status. The ONU includes transmitting and receiving components that are selectively powered down during the sleep mode based on a type of traffic in the ONU. 1. A system comprising:an optical network unit (ONU) configured to operate in a first mode or a second mode of operation; instruct the ONU to operate in the first mode of operation based on a type of traffic in upstream traffic or downstream traffic;', 'buffer the downstream traffic to the ONU during the first mode of operation; and', 'disable a queue for the downstream traffic during the first mode of operation, the queue being located in the OLT., 'an optical line terminal (OLT) coupled to the ONU, the OLT being configured to2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the OLT is further configured to:instruct the ONU to operate in the first mode of operation in response to the upstream traffic and the downstream traffic being absent in the ONU; andinstruct the ONU to operate in the second mode of operation in response to the upstream traffic or the downstream traffic being present in the ONU.3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first mode of operation is a sleep mode and the second mode of operation is an active mode.4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the OLT comprises:a power-management module configured to instruct the ONU to operate in the first mode of operation; and the instruction to operate in the first mode of operation; and', 'a time duration for the ONU to operate in the first mode of operation., 'an Operations, Administration, and Management (OAM) module configured to generate an OAM message for the ONU, the OAM message comprising5. The system of claim 1 ...

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