Abstract:
An optical repeater which includes a wavelength converter and a bit rate converter. The wavelength converter converts a wavelength of an optical signal from a first optical network to a wavelength of a second optical network. The bit rate converter converts a bit rate of the optical signal from the first optical network to a bit rate of the second optical network. The optical repeater transmits the optical signal from the first optical network to the second optical network at the converted bit rate and wavelength.
Abstract:
A switching method in a bidirectional line switched ring includes the steps of performing span switch by one node of the ring for getting rid of a fault detected by the one node, changing the span switch into ring switch when the span switch could not be performed normally, and performing the ring switch, and holding the ring switch request as an internal request of the one node when a span switch request, higher in priority than the ring switch, generated in another node is received by the one node.
Abstract:
This application provides a network system that can obviate the need for arbitration control, and can realize bidirectional communications and loopback communications. In the network system, a first channel to be transmitted in the first direction, a second channel to be transmitted in the second direction, and third and fourth channels distinguished from the above-mentioned channels are used, and the packet to be looped back is transmitted using either the third or fourth channel. The transmission direction of the third or fourth channel is determined or changed in the self node device or in another node device, thus realizing loopback communications. In order to output a packet temporarily stored in a buffer using a desired channel, a device for changing the channel to which the buffer is connected is used, and the packet is read out from the buffer in correspondence with the changed channel to be connected. As the device for changing the channel to which the buffer is connected, a variable channel transmitter or a selector is used.
Abstract:
A node for a ring type synchronous optical network can continue to communicate with another node, when a transmission path is interrupted, located on the opposite side of the interrupted transmission path. A cross connecting unit cross connects the ring type transmission path with an external transmission path. The cross connecting unit generates and sends to another node an alarm indication signal when the ring type optical path is interrupted. A path switching unit switches the connection of an external transmission path to either direction of the ring type transmission path. A controlling unit controls the path switching unit, when an alarm indication signal is received from another node, so that the path switching unit switches the connection to a side opposite to a side from which the alarm indication signal has been received.
Abstract:
A microcellular mobile radio communication system has a central base station and a plurality of radio base stations interconnected by a shared optical fiber transmission line. In the central and radio base stations, electrical radio signals are frequency-converted to frequencies assigned to the radio base stations and then converted into optical signals. In the central base station, the optical signals are combined for transmission through the optical fiber transmission line to the radio base stations. Alternatively, the frequency-converted electrical radio signals may first be combined and then converted into an optical signal for transmission. In the radio base stations, the electrical radio signals are converted to optical signals, which are combined and transmitted through the transmission line to the central radio station. In each radio base station, the frequency of the radio signal extracted from the received combined signal is frequency-converted to a frequency to be transmitted from its antenna, with the other signals filtered out. The central base station demodulates the received combined signal from the radio base stations into signals for the exchange office. The radio signals in different frequency bands assigned to each radio base station can simultaneously be transmitted through the shared optical fiber transmission lines between the radio and central base stations.
Abstract:
A semiconductor optical amplifying apparatus includes: a substrate; an active layer having a quantum well structure formed on the substrate, the active layer guiding first waveguide mode light and second waveguide mode light having a polarization direction perpendicular to that of the first waveguide mode light and amplifying the first waveguide mode light and the second waveguide mode light, the active layer having quantum wells such that projected quantization axes obtained by projecting quantization axes of the quantum wells thereof on a plane perpendicular to a light waveguide direction are inclined at 45.degree. with respect to vibration directions of electric field vectors of the first waveguide mode light and the second waveguide mode light; and an electrode for supplying a current to the active layer.
Abstract:
In a multiwavelength lightwave communications system channel-by-channel power regulation is achieved with a cascade of inhomogeneously broadened saturated fiber amplifiers spaced along the optical fiber transmission path. In the described embodiment, inhomogeneous broadening is achieved by immersing each of the erbiumdoped fiber amplifiers in the cascade in a bath of liquid nitrogen, thereby cooling each amplifier to approximately 77 K.
Abstract:
An optical switching system receives an optical input signal which is a wavelength-division multiplexed and time-division multiplexed signal. The optical input signal is divided into time-division multiplexed optical signals in different wavelength regions and transferred within an optical data bus after being subjected to a predetermined process including a frequency shift. The optical signals in the different wavelength regions are extracted from the optical data bus using optical bandpass filters, and multiplexed into an output optical signal which is a wavelength-division multiplexed and time-division multiplexed signal after being subjected to a predetermined process including a frequency shift.
Abstract:
An optoelectrical connector device comprising a first and a second optical terminal connected to a main optical transmission line, a third optical terminal connected to a subsidiary optical transmission line, a first and a second light receiving means, and a first and a second light emitting means. The second light receiving means and the first light emitting means are optically connected to each other, and transmit a signal to a first information processing unit and receive the processed signal from it. The second optical terminal is connected optically to the first light receiving means and the second light emitting means, and transmits a signal to the first information processing unit and receives the processed signal from it. The third optical terminal is connected optically to the first light receiving means and transmits a signal to a second information processing unit.
Abstract:
A loop-back control apparatus for use in an optical fiber transmission system, wherein it is possible to compensate for faults in opto-electrical and electro-optical converters contained in the optical fiber transmission system. An electrical switch, an optical switch, and duplicate access controllers are provided, the electrical and optical switches being controlled by a control signal generator to enable selection from among the various electro-optical and opto-electrical converters in the event of fault in one of those devices.