摘要:
A segmented-in-series solid oxide fuel cell stack of the invention comprises: an electrically-insulating porous support body having a gas passage therein; and a plurality of fuel cells arranged side by side on a surface of the support body. Each fuel cell have a first inner electrode layer; a current collector and a second inner electrode layer arranged side by side on the first inner electrode layer; and a solid electrolyte layer and an outer electrode layer sequentially laminated on the second inner electrode layer, and have a multilayer structure in which the solid electrolyte layer is extended and connected to the current collector through an intermediate layer. These fuel cells are connected in series. The current collector and the second inner electrode layer are arranged with a predetermined clearance therebetween on the first inner electrode layer. A fuel cell of the invention is formed by storing these segmented-in-series solid oxide fuel cell stacks in a storage container.
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:
In an optical transmitter of the invention, continuous light from a light source is a (CS)RZ-D(Q)PSK modulated by two optical modulators connected in series, and a part of the optical signal output from a post-stage optical modulator is branched by an output monitor section, and the power of a preset frequency component, excluding a frequency component corresponding to a baud rate, included in an electrical spectrum acquired by photoelectrically converting the branched beams is measured. The relative phase of drive signals applied to the optical modulators is then feed-back controlled so that the power becomes a minimum. As a result, a delay shift due to a temperature change or the like between drive signals applied to respective optical modulators, can be reliably compensated.
摘要:
An optical apparatus having a loss compensation capability includes between an input connector 1A and an output connector 1B an input side optical parts 2 including an input monitor, an amplification medium 3, a loss medium 4, and an output side optical parts 5 including an output monitor in this order, and is provided with a control circuit 6 for controlling a gain based on a monitor result of input/output light. The amount of reflection attenuation on all points, on which the light can be reflected on the optical path from the output end of the amplification medium 3 to the output connector 1B, can be smaller than the amount of reflection attenuation on the end face of the output connector 1B.
摘要:
It is an object of the present invention to provide an optical amplifier using optical amplification mediums each doped with a rare earth element for increasing amplification efficiency of signal light in S-band and the like. To this end, the optical amplifier is constituted such that, when performing optical amplification for S-band and the like in which a center wavelength of a gain peak in the optical amplification medium is located at an outside of a signal band, a gain coefficient of when a pumping condition of the optical amplification medium is maximum is set so that a parameter η obtained by dividing a minimum value of the gain coefficient in the signal band by a maximum value of the gain coefficient outside of the signal band becomes a previously set value or more, wherein, for example, the parameter η can be increased by controlling a temperature of each of a plurality of EDFs between which gain equalizers are disposed.
摘要:
In an optical amplification characteristics simulation apparatus according to the present invention, using spectrums of a signal light input to an optical amplifier and a characteristic parameter for amplification medium, gain wavelength characteristics of the amplification medium are calculated. A calculating formula for the above has a parameter corresponding to a gain fluctuation portion due to a gain spectral hole burning (GSHB) phenomenon, and this parameter is defined by a function obtained by modeling a physical phenomenon in which a population inversion rate is reduced due to the GSHB, based on that electron occupation numbers in each Stark level on the end level side are increased. Then, based on the calculated gain wavelength characteristics, the output power of the signal light is obtained, to thereby perform the optical amplification characteristics simulation on the optical amplifier. As a result, it is possible to construct a high versatile calculation model based on the physical phenomenon for the gain fluctuation due to the GSHB, to thereby simulate with high precision the optical amplification characteristics of the optical amplifier under arbitrary conditions.
摘要:
An optical fiber includes: a first core portion doped with rare earth ions; a second core portion having a lower refractive index than that of the first core portion, provided along an outer circumference of the first core portion, and doped with the rare earth ions; and a clad portion having a lower refractive index than that of the second core portion and provided along an outer circumference of the second core portion, and is configured such that a concentration of the rare earth ions added to the second core portion is higher than that to the first core portion. With this configuration, it is possible to suppress an amount of FWM crosstalk in an optical amplification by decreasing the length of a fiber while alleviating efficiency deterioration due to concentration quenching.
摘要:
An optical apparatus having a loss compensation capability includes between an input connector 1A and an output connector 1B an input side optical parts 2 including an input monitor, an amplification medium 3, a loss medium 4, and an output side optical parts 5 including an output monitor in this order, and is provided with a control circuit 6 for controlling a gain based on a monitor result of input/output light. The amount of reflection attenuation on all points, on which the light can be reflected on the optical path from the output end of the amplification medium 3 to the output connector 1B, can be smaller than the amount of reflection attenuation on the end face of the output connector 1B.
摘要:
An amplification medium simulation apparatus comprises a basic data retaining unit 21, an input signal beam information retaining unit 22, and a simulation executing unit 31 approximating and calculating an output signal beam power at each signal beam wavelength outputted from the amplification medium involving a fluctuation in ion population at the metastable energy level in the amplification medium due to input of the input signal beam, by using contents retained in the basic data retaining unit 21 and the input signal beam information retaining unit 22, and outputting a result of calculation as a result of simulation of performance of the amplification medium.