摘要:
An optical pulse signal produced by modulating a continuous laser light by means of a first pulse having a period sufficiently shorter than the atomic lifetime in the upper energy state of a rare earth doped fiber is input to an optical amplifier to be measured, while an output signal from the optical amplifier is modulated by a second pulse synchronized with the first pulse and having a phase difference relative to the first pulse which can be optionally set so that rapid phase adjustment relative to the first pulse is possible based on the phase at the time of minimum optical power. The noise figure of the optical amplifier is then measured based on, the maximum photoelectric power (P.sub.AMP +P.sub.ASE) and the minimum photoelectric power P.sub.ASE of the resultant optical signal.
摘要:
A simple, quick and precise method for determining a noise factor of an optical amplifier system is presented and demonstrated with an apparatus based on rare-earth doped optical fibers. The method is based on rapid adjustments of the phase differentials between the input optical signals into and the output optical signals from the optical amplifier to compensate for system variables including the optical fiber lengths within the apparatus as well as in the ancillary devices. A cw laser source is modulated with a first pulse having a significantly shorter cycle than a lifetime of excited atoms within the doped fiber, and the modulated pulses are continually applied to the noise determining apparatus. The optical output signal from the apparatus is synchronized with the first pulse and the optical output signal is further modulated with a series of second pulses having increasing phase differentials in relation to the first pulse. The electrical output power from the noise determining apparatus undergoes a maximum and a minimum values, and the noise factor of the apparatus is calculated by using the values of the respective maximum and the minimum electrical output power.
摘要:
A method and an apparatus for monitoring the noise figure of an optical amplifier such as used in linear repeaters in an optical transmission system formed by cascaded linear repeaters. The apparatus includes at least one optical amplifier for amplifying input signal light and a narrow bandwidth optical filter for removing amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) light generated at the optical amplifier. A gain detector is provided to detect the gain of the optical amplifier and an ASE optical power detector detects an optical power of the ASE light generated at the optical amplifier. The apparatus includes a splitter for splitting light entering into the narrow bandwidth optical filter and a local oscillator for generating local light having a wavelength displaced from a wavelength of the input signal light. The light split by the splitter is coupled with the local light generated by the local oscillator. An optical power detector makes a heterodyne detection of the optical power of the coupled light. An electrical band-pass filter extracts the optical power of the ASE light generated by the optical amplifier from the optical power obtained by the optical power detector. A noise figure calculator calculates the noise figure according to the gain detected by the gain detector and the optical power of the ASE light detected by the ASE optical power detector.
摘要:
An optical amplifier using either rare-earth doped optical fiber, which can amplify an optical signal when a pumping light is injected, or a laser diode amplifier, which can amplify an optical signal by injection of an electric current. The amplifiers being of simple construction and having a gain which can be maintained constant through feedback control based on the detection of spontaneous emission from the sides of either the rare-earth doped optical fiber or the laser diode. The control being performed without the need for detection of input or output optical signal of the optical amplifier.
摘要:
A program counter display device having a program memory which stores a source program. An interpreter reads out the source program from the program memory and executing it. A program list generator generates a program list of the program stored in the program memory, and a program flow monitor having knowledge of the program flow determines the program flow in accordance with the statement currently being executed. A control structure monitor correlates the current statement supplied from the interpreter with a program control structure, and checks the balance of the program control structure such as the existence of an end in a loop structure, the existence of a destination of a branch sentence, etc. A program counter-mark generator connected to the program flow monitor and the control structure monitor generates a program counter mark indicating the program counter function, the program flow, and the control sturcture. A display device connects to the program list generator and to the program counter mark generator and displays the program counter mark in association with the program list. The program counter mark is constituted by a box section which is displayed over the range of the program list included in the program control structure. A direction-indicating section is displayed within the box section, and indicates which statement is currently being executed, and also the direction of program flow. When the arrow of the direction-indicating section is pointing right, the arrow is pointing to the current statement; when the arrow is pointing upward or downward, the arrow is indicating the program flow.
摘要:
The invention offers an optical fiber amplifier with good frequency characteristics which allows the gain to be held constant even without an input signal beam and allows gain control with respect to input optical signals with high-speed power fluctuations. An excitation beam source 8 supplies an excitation beam for light amplification and a control beam source 15 supplies a control beam for controlling the gain to an EDF 4 which amplifies a signal beam by means of optical excitation. An excitation beam monitor 9 measures the power of the excitation beam when inputted to the EDF 4 and an excitation beam monitor 12 measures the power of the excitation beam when outputted from the EDF 4. A comparator 11 calculates the ratio between the power measured by the excitation beam monitor 9 and the power measured by the excitation beam monitor 12. A drive circuit 14 controls the power of the control beam supplied by the control beam source 15 based on the results obtained by the comparator 11.
摘要:
A method and a system for measuring a noise figure of an optical amplifier which independently detects two different output powers generated from the optical amplifier under measurement. The generation of the first output power is in synchronization with a space period of an input optical pulsed signal, while the generation of the second output power is in synchronization with the mark period of the input optical pulsed signal. The-optical pulsed signal is an intensity-modulated signal given at a repetition period which is sufficiently shorter than the life time of carriers or the life time of ions in a metastable level of the optical amplifier under measurement.
摘要:
The object of the present invention is to control the amplification rate of a photoperiodic circuit by stable negative feedback control, thereby suppressing fluctuations in the circulating light in the photoperiodic circuit. The circulating light in the photoperiodic circuit is converted into an electrical signal, indicating the intensity of the circulating light, which is held in a first sample-and-hold circuit. Additionally, an electrical signal indicating the intensity of circulating light of the circuit previous to that of the first sample-and-hold circuit is held in a second sample-and-hold circuit. The difference in the value between the electrical signals which indicate intensities of the circulating light are determined by a subtraction circuit. The result is supplied to an addition circuit through a third sample-and-hold circuit. The addition circuit adds the output of the third sample-and-hold circuit with the output of a standard electrical power source, and the result is supplied to an excitation light source. The excitation light source supplies excitation light, having an intensity dependent upon the above-mentioned addition result, to a rare-earth-doped fiber.
摘要:
Broadband switching networks are disclosed, which has a plurality of broadband switch nodes and a broadband switch inter-node transmission line for connecting the plurality of broadband switch nodes, information being transmitted by cells, each of which comprises a header and an information field, wherein the broadband switch node comprises a broadband input and output port for inputting and outputting the cells to and from the broadband inter-node transmission line, and a switch for separating the cells being input through the broadband input and output port and for multiplexing the cells so as to output them, wherein data composed of the plurality of cells is transmitted and received through the broadband switch node by constant bit rate transmission, variable bit rate transmission, or a combination of the constant bit rate transmission and the variable bit rate transmission.
摘要:
Broadband switching networks are disclosed, which have a plurality of broadband switch nodes and a broadband switch inter-node transmission line for connecting the plurality of broadband switch nodes, information being transmitted by cells, each of which comprises a header and an information field, wherein the broadband switch nodes comprise a broadband input and output port for inputting and outputting the cells to and from the broadband inter-node transmission line, and a switch for separating the cells being input through the broadband input and output port and for multiplexing the cells so as to output the cells, wherein data composed of the plurality of cells is transmitted and received through the broadband switch nodes by constant bit rate transmission, variable bit rate transmission, or a combination of the constant bit rate transmission and the variable bit rate transmission.