Abstract:
A method (400) for overlapping spectrum amplification includes receiving an optical signal (102) and splitting the optical signal into a first split signal (102a) having a first wavelength band (λ a ) and a second split signal (102b) having a second wavelength band (λ b ). The splitting results in a band gap (G) between the first wavelength band and the second wavelength band. The method further includes delaying the first split signal by a threshold period of time relative to the second split signal and combining the first split signal and the second split signal, resulting in a combined signal (104) having the first wavelength band and the second wavelength band without the band gap therebetween. The path difference between the first split signal along the first signal path (P1) and the second split signal along the second signal path (P2) is within a threshold multipath interference compensation range.
Abstract:
Apparatus and methods are provided for application layer optimization in a modern data network. The optimization incorporates variable rate transmission across one or more optical data channels. Data throughput is maximized by enabling quality of service profiles on a per transmission channel basis. According to one aspect, a system (200) is provided in which the application layer is aware of and controls the underlying transmission rate (212) and quality (214) of the transmission. This enables the system to fully utilize the transmission capacity of the channel. The application layer may map different applications to different transmission classes of service. The services can be classified based on data throughput rate, guaranteed error rates, latency and cost, among other criteria. This provides flexibility to the application layer to map some loss tolerant applications to a lower cost (per bit) transmission class.
Abstract:
Aspects of the invention provide transmitters (1102) and receivers (1104) for managing multiple optical signals. High order modulation, such as phase and/or amplitude modulation, is used to achieve multiple bits per symbol by transporting multiple asynchronous data streams in an optical transport system (100). One or more supplemental multiplexing techniques such as time division multiplexing, polarization multiplexing and sub-carrier multiplexing may be used in conjunction with the high order modulation processing. This may be done in various combinations to realize a highly spectrally efficient multi-data stream transport mechanism. The system receives a number of asynchronous signals which are unframed (102) and synchronized (104), and then reframed (106) and tagged (108) prior to the high order modulation (112). Differential encoding (110) may also be performed. Upon reception of the multiplexed optical signal, the receiver circuitry (116) may employ either direct detection without a local oscillator or coherent detection with a local oscillator.