摘要:
An optical repeater having a loop-back function is provided in a transmission system including first and second transmission lines. The optical repeater includes a first optical amplifier connected to the first transmission line, a second optical amplifier connected to the second transmission line, a loop-back unit connected to both transmission lines, and a control unit. The control unit controls the loop-back unit to form a loop-back line when a loop-back instruction is detected. Therefore, optical signals are directly amplified without being converted into electrical signals, and a loop-back signal (return signal) and optical signals are not mixed in the optical repeater so that a loop-back operation can be correctly carried out in an optical repeater having a small size and low power consumption.
摘要:
An optical repeater provided in an up line and a down line, the optical repeater includes a first circuit related to the up line, and a second circuit related to the down line. Each circuit includes an optical receive/decision circuit, a command extraction circuit, a command detection circuit, a command switch and a supervisory circuit. Each circuit also includes a noise component processing circuit which extracts, from the electrical signal, a noise component within a predetermined frequency range excluding a frequency of the command signal and determines whether or not the optical signal is input to the optical receive/decision circuit on the basis of the noise component and which prevents the noise component passing through the command extracting circuit from being directly applied to the command detecting circuit when it is determined that no the optical input is input to the optical receive/decision circuit. Each circuit further includes an output circuit which converts the data signal and a supervisory signal into an optical output which is transferred to a corresponding one of the up line and the down line.
摘要:
An optical repeater OFF-state supervisory method includes the steps of: converting an input optical signal into an electrical signal; monitoring a level of the input optical signal from a monitored value when converted into the electrical signal; monitoring whether an input optical signal to an optical repeater is in an OFF state or not; detecting that the input optical signal has been in an OFF state; and changing the monitored value to a predetermined fixed monitored value.