摘要:
Dispersion compensation values are set so as to be transmittable to any path groups in a WDM optical communication system having OADM nodes, which includes transmitting-end and receiving-end terminal nodes; a WDM optical communication transmission line including a plurality of spans each having an optical fiber, the plurality of spans joining the transmitting-end and receiving-end terminal nodes; and a plurality of add drop multiplexing (OADM) nodes disposed on the optical communication transmission line; wherein when taking as the reference a residual dispersion target value of between the transmitting-end terminal and receiving-end terminal nodes, a residual dispersion target value for a node segment between one of the terminal nodes and one of the add drop multiplexing (OADM) nodes and a residual dispersion target value for a node-to-node segment between two of the add drop multiplexing (OADM) nodes are set so as to be proportional to ratios of the span counts in the node segment and in the node-to-node segment, respectively, to the total span count between the transmitting-end and receiving-end terminal nodes.
摘要:
Conventionally, an adjustment of an optical power level of an input Pin of an optical amplifier module is made with an optical variable attenuator. An optical coupler for measuring the optical power level of Pin and an optical variable attenuator are replaced by a variable optical coupler. The branch ratio of the variable optical coupler is varied, whereby the input optical power level Pin to an optical amplifier module is adjusted. As a result, an optical loss is reduced by an amount corresponding to the elimination of the optical attenuator, and also the OSNR of the optical amplifier module is improved.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an optical sender applicable to WDM (wavelength division multiplexing), and a primary object of the present invention is to prevent interchannel crosstalk in WDM. The optical sender includes a light source for outputting a light beam, an optical modulator for modulating the light beam in accordance with a main signal to output an optical signal, and a unit for shutting down the optical signal when receiving at least one of a power alarm relating to on/off of power supply and a wavelength alarm relating to the wavelength of the light beam.
摘要:
A control method, which is applicable to a variety of network configurations, controls an optical transmission system to determine optimum optical input power to a transmission path for increased optical transmission quality. The optical transmission system has terminal stations, repeaters, dispersion compensation modules, and a dispersion compensation controller. The terminal stations transmit and receive an optical signal through an optical fiber transmission path. The repeaters are disposed in the optical fiber transmission path for amplifying the optical signal. The dispersion compensation modules are disposed in the terminal stations and the repeaters for compensating for dispersion of the optical signal. The dispersion compensation controller determines a target value for a nonlinear phase shift, which is an indication of a self-phase modulation caused by a transmission medium of the optical fiber transmission path, to have a maximum residual dispersion tolerance, and adjusts at least one of the input powers applied to transmission paths connected to the terminal stations or the repeaters and the input powers applied to the dispersion compensation modules to equalize the nonlinear phase shifts of paths in the optical transmission system to the target value.
摘要:
In a long-distance and large-capacity optical transmission system, a dispersion compensating device showing a wavelength-dependency of dispersion characteristic is provided in a transmission line which makes a connection between a transmission terminal node and a reception terminal node. The reception terminal node acquires a dispersion quantity relative to single-wavelength light outputted from a wavelength-variable transmitter which is provided in the transmission terminal node for outputting single-wavelength light, and transmits wavelength control information corresponding to the acquired dispersion quantity to the transmission terminal node. The transmission terminal node varies the wavelength of the transmitter on the basis of the transmitted wavelength control information. This enables acquiring an optimum dispersion compensation quantity with a simple configuration and optimizing a dispersion compensation quantity for each channel at the transmission of wavelength-multiplexed light.
摘要:
An optical transmission system in which a wavelength-division-multplexed (WDM) optical signal including a plurality of optical signals having different wavelengths is demultiplexed into first optical signals and second optical signals. The second optical signals have wavelengths longer than wavelengths of the first optical signals. A first dispersion compensator compensates dispersion of the first optical signals. A second dispersion compensator compensates dispersion of the second optical signals. The dispersion compensated first and second optical signals are then multiplexed together.
摘要:
The invention provides a technique for optimizing transmission conditions to achieve large-capacity transmission, and also provides peripheral techniques for the practical implementation of optical multiplexing that makes large-capacity transmission possible. A transmission characteristic is measured in a transmission characteristic measuring section, and control of signal light wavelength in a tunable light source, control of the amount of prechirping, control of the amount of dispersion compensation, and/or control of optical power are performed to achieve the best transmission characteristic. Wavelength dispersion is deliberately introduced by a dispersion compensator, to reduce nonlinear effects. A tunable laser is used to optimize signal light wavelength for each optical amplification repeater section. Peripheral technique, such as drift compensation, clock extraction, optical signal channel identification, clock phase stabilization, etc., are provided for the implementation of optical multiplexing.
摘要:
The invention provides a technique for optimizing transmission conditions to achieve large-capacity transmission, and also provides peripheral techniques for the practical implementation of optical multiplexing that makes large-capacity transmission possible. A transmission characteristic is measured in a transmission characteristic measuring section, and control of signal light wavelength in a tunable light source, control of the amount of prechirping, control of the amount of dispersion compensation, and/or control of optical power are performed to achieve the best transmission characteristic. Wavelength dispersion is deliberately introduced by a dispersion compensator, to reduce nonlinear effects. A tunable laser is used to optimize signal light wavelength for each optical amplification repeater section. Peripheral techniques, such as drift compensation, clock extraction, optical signal channel identification, clock phase stabilization, etc., are provided for the implementation of optical multiplexing.
摘要:
The invention provides a technique for optimizing transmission conditions to achieve large-capacity transmission, and also provides peripheral techniques for the practical implementation of optical multiplexing that makes large-capacity transmission possible. A transmission characteristic is measured in a transmission characteristic measuring section, and control of signal light wavelength in a tunable light source, control of the amount of prechirping, control of the amount of dispersion compensation, and/or control of optical power are performed to achieve the best transmission characteristic. Wavelength dispersion is deliberately introduced by a dispersion compensator, to reduce nonlinear effects. A tunable laser is used to optimize signal light wavelength for each optical amplification repeater section. Peripheral techniques, such as drift compensation, clock extraction, optical signal channel identification, clock phase stabilization, etc., are provided for the implementation of optical multiplexing.
摘要:
The invention provides an optical wavelength multiplex transmission method wherein a band in the proximity of a zero dispersion wavelength of an optical fiber is used and optical signals are disposed at efficient channel spacings taking an influence of the band, the wavelength dispersion and the four wave mixing into consideration to realize an optical communication system of an increased capacity which is not influenced by crosstalk by FWM. When optical signals of a plurality of channels having different wavelengths are to be multiplexed and transmitted using an optical fiber, a four wave mixing suppressing guard band of a predetermined bandwidth including the zero-dispersion wavelength .lambda..sub.0 of the optical fiber is set, and signal light waves of the plurality of channels to be multiplexed are arranged on one of the shorter wavelength side and the longer wavelength side outside the guard band.