DYNAMIC MONITORING AND CALIBRATION OF NODES IN AN OPTICAL NETWORKING DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20190238224A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-01

    申请号:US15883540

    申请日:2018-01-30

    摘要: A monitoring and calibration apparatus for an optical networking device such as ROADM is provided. Reflectors are integrated into the device, for example at the ends of optical interconnect cables. The reflectors reflect light in specific monitoring wavelengths and pass other wavelengths such as those used for communication. A light source emits monitoring light which is reflected by the reflector and measured by a detector to measure the integrity of optical paths. The optical paths can include optical cables and cable connectors. Path integrity between different modules of the device can therefore be monitored. Multiple reflectors, reflecting light in different wavelengths, can be placed in series along the same optical path and used to monitor multiple segments of the path. A wavelength selective switch (WSS) of the device can be used to route monitoring light to different optical paths. The WSS also operates to route communication signals in the device.

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION NETWORK SERVICE CONNECTIVITY

    公开(公告)号:US20170310395A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-26

    申请号:US15430070

    申请日:2017-02-10

    IPC分类号: H04B10/27 H04B10/079

    摘要: A method for assigning a network path after receiving a connection request to connect a first node with a second node of a network. The method including evaluating a network utilization parameter of the network, such as a network load or blocking probability, at that point in time. If the network utilization parameter is below a minimum threshold level, the method includes carrying out the steps of identifying a set of n network paths through the network that connect the first node with the second node and are absent non-linear links, performing network path selection by selecting p network paths from the set of n network paths that have the best linear OSNR, and, selecting a network path from the set of p network paths that balances the wavelength utilization between the first node and the second node of a network.

    Photonic-Layer Aware Path Computation Element

    公开(公告)号:US20180062783A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-01

    申请号:US15248890

    申请日:2016-08-26

    IPC分类号: H04J14/02

    摘要: A network controller in a control plane and a method for selecting a connection for a wavelength channel from a plurality of connection candidates in a communications network. The network controller comprises a modeling module and a routing engine. The modeling module obtains information from a physical element in the network, related to an estimated time for the element to establish each connection candidate therethrough for the wavelength channel. The routing engine selects the connection taking into account the estimated time associated with each connection candidate.

    FAST CONNECTION TURN-UP WITH PATH-BASED DUMMY LIGHTS

    公开(公告)号:US20190319735A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-17

    申请号:US16383310

    申请日:2019-04-12

    IPC分类号: H04J14/02 H04Q11/00

    摘要: A method of managing an optical communications network comprising a plurality of nodes interconnected by optical sections. The method comprises: identifying one or more pairs of adjacent DL-equipped nodes at which dummy light (DL) hardware is deployed, respective dummy light (DL) hardware being deployed at fewer than the plurality of the nodes of the optical communications network, the respective DL hardware deployed at a particular node configured to supply dummy light to each optical section extending from the particular node, and defining a respective single-section DL path between each identified pair of adjacent DL-equipped nodes; identifying one or more pairs of non-adjacent DL-equipped nodes at which DL hardware is deployed, and defining a respective multi-section DL path between each identified pair of non-adjacent DL-equipped nodes; and causing the deployed DL hardware to supply DL light to each of the single- and the multi-section DL paths.

    SHORT-TERM OPTICAL RECOVERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COHERENT OPTICAL RECEIVERS
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    发明申请
    SHORT-TERM OPTICAL RECOVERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COHERENT OPTICAL RECEIVERS 有权
    短期光学恢复系统和相关光接收机的方法

    公开(公告)号:US20130051809A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-02-28

    申请号:US13216941

    申请日:2011-08-24

    IPC分类号: H04B10/06

    摘要: The present disclosure provides short-term optical recovery systems and methods in coherent optical receivers to minimize recovery time for fault scenarios and signal reacquisition while maintaining robust signal acquisition. The short-term optical recovery systems and methods include special techniques and algorithms to minimize recovery time. The short-term optical recovery systems and methods include an expedited acquisition engine that includes a reference clock recovery, a compensator to remove chromatic dispersion, a burst framer, and a compensator to remove polarization dispersion. Importantly, the expedited acquisition engine uses a memory-oriented architecture to allow some properties of the acquisition engine to be stored during initial acquisition and, hence, later on be deployed in any fault scenario to further expedite recovery of a signal. The expedited acquisition engine leverages on a frequency aligned Local Oscillator (LO) as well as pre-calculated dispersion maps and equalizer coefficients.

    摘要翻译: 本公开提供了相干光接收机中的短期光学恢复系统和方法,以最小化故障场景的恢复时间和信号重新采集,同时保持鲁棒的信号采集。 短期光学恢复系统和方法包括特殊技术和算法,以最大限度地减少恢复时间。 短期光学恢复系统和方法包括加速采集引擎,其包括参考时钟恢复,用于去除色散的补偿器,突发成帧器和补偿器以去除偏振色散。 重要的是,加速采集引擎使用面向内存的架构,以允许在初始采集期间存储采集引擎的某些属性,并且因此随后部署在任何故障场景中以进一步加速信号的恢复。 加速采集引擎利用频率对准的本地振荡器(LO)以及预先计算的色散映射和均衡器系数。

    APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TUNABLE PHOTONIC DELAY

    公开(公告)号:US20210014584A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-14

    申请号:US16508652

    申请日:2019-07-11

    摘要: A system and method for a tunable optical delay line. The tunable optical delay line comprises a coarse delay portion that provides a coarse delay amount, the coarse delay portion including a coarse delay selection element in conjunction with a coarse delay element, the coarse delay selection element incorporated on-chip into a photonic integrated circuit (IC) component, the coarse delay element being disposed off-chip of the photonic IC component and interconnected with the coarse delay selection element; and a fine delay element that provides a fine delay amount, the fine delay element interconnected in series with the coarse delay selection element, the optical delay line being tunable to a target delay amount by agglomerating the coarse and fine delay amounts.