摘要:
A chromatic dispersion measuring method and apparatus are disclosed which permit highly accurate measurements of the wavelength dispersion characteristic of an optical transmission such as an optical fiber or an optical amplifier repeater system. Measurements are made on the propagation time of a first optical signal of a fixed wavelength through an optical transmission line to be measured and the propagation time through the same optical transmission line of a second optical signal whose wavelength can be arbitrarily set over the measuring wavelength band. By obtaining a difference between the both propagation times, it is possible to obtain only a change in the propagation time of each signal which is caused by a change in the wavelength of the second optical signal. That is, the elongation or shrinkage of the optical fiber has an equal influence on both of the first optical signal and the second optical signal, and hence does not induce an error in the detection of the above-said time difference.
摘要:
In a long-distance high-speed optical communication scheme in which multiple optical amplifiers are provided at a large number of stages in optical fibers, an optical signal from a light source which has a desired small line width and oscillates at a single wavelength is modulated at a high speed by an external modulator and then transmitted in the fibers which are dispersion shifted optical fibers, the zero-dispersion wavelength in which is set to be larger than the oscillation wavelength of the light source. Therefore, noises and the modulation instability, which would occur due to the phase fluctuation in the oscillation wavelength of the light source, and the influence of a waveform distortion due to the dispersion in the optical fibers can be avoided to make it possible for the first time in history to transmit the optical signals at the high-speed in the long-distance optical communication system employing the optical amplifiers.
摘要:
An optical privacy communication system in optical fiber communications between many points is disclosed in which, each station is provided with a privacy circuit. Each privacy circuit comprises a first optical branch for connecting the station to first and second optical branches, a second optical branch for connecting the first and second optical branches to the optical fiber transmission line, an optical isolator inserted in the first optical branch, for passing only a signal of a direction from the first optical branch to the second optical branch, and an optical filter inserted in the second optical branch, for passing only an optical signal of a frequency assigned to the station, so that an optical privacy communication is carried out between the stations.
摘要:
A pumping light source drive system is disclosed for driving pumping light sources of an optical amplifier which is composed of a rare earth doped optical fiber doped with a rare earth element and said pumping light sources. The pumping light sources are always held in operation. The output signal power at the output of the rare earth doped optical fiber or the combined power of the pumping light sources is detected and compared with a predetermined reference power to control the output power of the pumping light sources, so that the output signal power or the combined power of the pumping light sources reaches a predetermined value.
摘要:
An optical repeating path fault location system for a PCM optical transmission system which is composed of a backward transmission path and a forward transmission path respectively formed of separated optical fibers and having disposed therein a plurality of PCM optical regenerative repeaters at the same repeating positions for the transmission paths. For each of the transmission paths at each repeater position, there are provided a detector for extracting from each one of the transmission paths at least one of frequency signal components individually assigned to the repeaters to provide a detected output, and pulse generating means responsive to the detected output to generate a predetermined common test pattern pulse train for applying as an optical signal to the input portion of the corresponding repeater in each the other of the transmission paths. Repeater identify signals including the frequency signal components respectively assigned to the sequentially disposed PCM regenerative repeaters of each one of the transmission paths are sequentially transmitted from a signal transmitting station of each one of the transmission paths. Each the other of the transmission paths is monitored for a fault on the basis of the reception result of the test pattern pulse train received by the signal transmitting station via each the other of the transmission paths.
摘要:
A demultiplexer device is used in a wavelength-division multiplexed optical fiber communication line to achieve efficient dispersion compensation and loss compensation as well as a reduction of active devices such as optical amplifiers. The demultiplexer device has a series of couplers disposed in multi-stages from the input of the demultiplexer. Each coupler has two branches with one branch of each coupler connected to a separate optical filter and the other branches are series connected to a subsequent stage of the couplers through equalizing fibers, except for the final stage which has its second branch connected to an optical filter for the shortest wavelength transmitted. The equalizing fibers are thus serially connected between couplers and act to perform a cumulative dispersion compensation. The quantity of the equalizing fibers can thus be reduced as a whole, and as a result the attenuation amount also decreases, so that the number of optical amplifiers can be reduced.
摘要:
At the time of receiving a repeater supervisory signal superimposed on or combined by wavelength multiplexing with a main optical signal in an optical amplifier repeater system, the received optical signal is subjected to a photoelectric conversion by a photodetector and then branched into two electric signals, the one of which is subjected to equalizing amplification, timing extraction and discrimination and regeneration to extract only the main signal component. The main signal component thus extracted and the main signal contained in the other electric signal, which is not regenerated, are respectively subjected to required equalization, delay adjustment and amplitude adjustment so that they match with one another in waveform, phase and amplitude. In addition, the amplitude adjustment of the main signal is automatically controlled. By differentially combining these signals to remove only the main signal component to minimize its residual value, thereby extracting the supervisory signal to be obtained.
摘要:
An optical switch for switching laser beams, having a transparent glass plate with a reflection film on the surface of the same has been found. When the reflection film is at the first position, the first input beam is coupled with the output beam through the transparent glass plate, while the second input beam is prevented by said reflection film. When the reflection film is at the second position, the first input beam is prevented by said reflection film, and the second input beam is coupled with the output beam through the reflection by said reflection film. Thus, according to the displacement of the transparent glass plate together with the reflection film, the input beams are switched. Due to the above operational principle, the output optical level does not decrease even during the transient time, and then, the present optical switch is utilized in an optical repeater for digital communication.
摘要:
An optical transmitter for providing a signal light with a reduced degree of polarization, the transmitter being used as a transmitting terminal of an optical repeater system that encompasses optical amplifiers at a signal light transmitter, the optical transmitter includes an optical source for transmitting a signal light source; and a degree of polarization reducing circuit including a polarizing beam splitter splitting the signal light source from the optical source means into a first polarized component and a second polarized component that are orthogonal to each other; a first optical path transmitting the first polarized component input from the polarizing beam splitter while maintaining the polarization plane of the first polarized component; a second optical path, which is spatially separate from the first optical path, transmitting the second polarized component input from the polarizing beam splitter while maintaining the polarization plane of the second polarized component; and a polarizing beam mixer mixing the first polarized component and the second polarized component that were transmitted over the first optical path and the second optical path, respectively; the length A1 of the first optical path and the length A2 of the second optical path satisfying the equation.vertline.A2.times.n2-A1.times.n1.vertline..gtoreq.0.22.div..DELTA.v.times.Cwhere n1 is the refractive index of the first optical path, n2 is the refractive index of the second optical path, .DELTA.v is the line width of the signal light source, and C is light velocity.
摘要:
Apparatus for monitoring a plurality of optical repeaters of an optical communication system in which each said repeater directly amplifies an optical signal transmitted in an optical fiber and passing through the respective optical repeater, including an optical division circuit for dividing an outgoing main line signal and a monitoring signal, a format conversion circuit by which monitoring information is converted into binary information, a previous modulation circuit by which a monitoring signal is modulated with a sine wave, a comparison circuit which compares the monitoring signal with a reference voltage, a voltage controlled amplifier which amplifies the modulated monitoring signal, an automatic gain control circuit which regulates the output from the outgoing optical repeater, and an outgoing optical repeater which includes a stimulating light source, a wave synthesizer and a doped optical fiber.