摘要:
In an optical transmission system according to one aspect of the present invention, for transmitting a WDM light from a transmission station to a reception station, utilizing a Raman amplifier, the Raman amplifier comprises: an optical amplification medium; a pumping light source generating a plurality of pumping lights having wavelengths different from each other; an optical device introducing the plurality of pumping lights to the optical amplification medium; and control means for controlling the pumping light source, the transmission station sends out a plurality of reference lights having wavelengths at which respective Raman gain obtained by the plurality of pumping lights reach peaks or wavelengths close to the above wavelengths, and the control means controls the plurality of pumping lights based on the optical powers of the plurality of reference lights. Thus, it becomes possible to accurately manage the optical power balance of the WDM light and the optical power of the entire WDM light.
摘要:
A control apparatus comprises a light monitoring unit (10) for dividing a signal wavelength band into at least a band (41, 43) in which output light power of an optical amplifier (1) tends to decrease at an decrease in the number of signal wavelengths and a band (42) including a gain deviation band, and for monitoring inputted light power for the individual divided bands (41, 42, 43), calculation unit (21) for obtaining the number of signal wavelengths in the individual divided bands (41, 42, 43) based on a monitor result, and a target gain correction unit (22) for correcting a target gain based on a result of the calculation. This suppresses a transient variation of signal light levels due to SHB or SRS at a high speed with a simple configuration without deteriorating noise characteristic, thus enabling optical amplifiers to be further disposed in a multi-stage fashion, which can lengthen the transmission distance of a transmission system including an optical add/drop unit.
摘要:
A control apparatus comprises a light monitoring unit (10) for dividing a signal wavelength band into at least a band (41, 43) in which output light power of an optical amplifier (1) tends to decrease at an decrease in the number of signal wavelengths and a band (42) including a gain deviation band, and for monitoring inputted light power for the individual divided bands (41,42,43), calculation unit (21) for obtaining the number of signal wavelengths in the individual dividedbands (41, 42, 43) basedon amonitor result, and a target gain correction unit (22) for correcting a target gain based on a result of the calculation. This suppresses a transient variation of signal light level due to SHB or SRS at a high speed with a simple configuration without deteriorating noise characteristic, thus enabling optical amplifiers to be further disposed in a multi-stage fashion, which can lengthen the transmission distance of a transmission system including an optical add/drop unit.
摘要:
Power of multi-path interference light is measured by setting the cycle of pulse modulation for a light source in correspondence with the length of an optical medium of a target(13) to be measured, by inputting pulse light after being modulated to the target(13) to be measured, by modulating (14) the pulse signal light output from the target (13) to be measured with the use of a pulse signal for modulation having the same cycle as the set cycle, and by observing the wavelength dependency of the power of the light after being modulated. In this way, a modulation condition is set according to a condition of a target(13) to be measured when multi-path interference light caused by double Rayleigh scattering light or reflection at the end of a connector is measured with a pulse-OSA method, so that measurement accuracy is improved.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a device for optical amplification, and a primary object of the present invention is to provide a method and device for optical amplification which can maintain the wavelength characteristic of gain constant and can obtain a wide input dynamic range. The device according to the present invention includes a first optical amplifying unit having a Raman amplifying medium (1) and a first pump source (3) for pumping the Raman amplifying medium, and a second optical amplifying unit (7) optically connected to a rear stage of the first optical amplifying unit. The second optical amplifying unit has an optical amplifying medium and second pump sources (5,8) for pumping the optical amplifying medium. The present invention is characterized by a control unit for controlling the gain of the first optical amplifying unit so that variations in output power of the first optical amplifying unit due to variations in input power of the first optical amplifying unit are canceled.