OPTICAL REPEATER SYSTEM

• US 20120087670A1
• Filed: 12/23/2009
• Published: 04/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SOLiD, Inc.
• Original Assignee: SOLiD, Inc.
• Inventors: Han, Kyung Eun, Yeo, Yeong Shin, Cho, Ki Chul
• Application Number:
  US13/378,656
• Publication Number:
  US 20120087670A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 398/97
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/25754 Star network topology

Abstract

The present invention relates to an optical relay system that transmits a band-limited multi-band frequency signal via an optical line. According to an embodiment of the present invention, since a remote unit includes a multiplexer that fixes a power flow direction to combine wireless signals of various bands and outputs the combined signals to a mobile terminal, or distributes wireless signals wireless signals received from the mobile terminal and fixes a power flow direction to output the distributed wireless signals, even if frequency bands of signals combined by the multiplexer overlap or are adjacent, power delivery in a direction opposite to the power delivery direction of a signal during a signal combining process can be prevented, reducing signal distortion, and thus improving efficiency in combining a number of signals.

Claims

1. An optical relay system comprising:

a base station interface unit configured to output radio frequency (RF) signals of multiple bands received from a base station to at least one optical distribution unit and transmit the RF signals of the multiple bands received from the at least one optical distribution unit to the base station according to frequency bands;

the optical distribution unit configured to convert the RF signals received from the base station interface unit into optical signals and transmit the optical signals to at least one remote unit or convert optical signals received from the at least one remote unit into RF signals and output the RF signals; and

the remote unit configured to convert the optical signals received from the optical distribution unit into RF signals of multiple bands, combine the RF signals of the multiple bands and output the combined signal to a mobile terminal or convert an RF signal received from the mobile terminal into optical signals and output the optical signals,

wherein the remote unit prevents a signal from being transferred in a reverse direction when the RF signals of the multiple bands are combined.

2. The optical relay system according to claim 1, wherein the remote unit prevents the signal from being transferred in the reverse direction when dividing the RF signal received from the mobile terminal and outputting the divided signals.

3. The optical relay system according to claim 2, wherein the remote unit includes a multiplexer configured to combine the RF signals of the multiple bands and provide the combined signal to the mobile terminal and divide the RF signal received from the mobile terminal and output the divided signals, prevents the signal from being transferred in the reverse direction when the multiplexer combines the RF signals of the multiple bands, and prevents the signal from being transferred in the reverse direction when the RF signal received from the mobile terminal is divided and the divided signals are output.

4. The optical relay system according to claim 3, wherein the multiplexer includes reverse signal blocking units which transmit a signal without attenuation in one direction and do not transmit a signal in a reverse direction.

5. The optical relay system according to claim 4, wherein the remote unit includes a remote conversion unit configured to convert the optical signals received from the at least one optical distribution unit into the RF signals and at least one remote drive unit configured to amplify and filter the RF signals output from the remote conversion unit and pass only an RF signal of a specific band, and

wherein the reverse direction signal blocking units are provided in an input signal line to receive the signal from the at least one remote drive unit and an output signal line to output the signal to the at least one remote drive unit.

6. The optical relay system according to claim 1, wherein the base station interface unit includes a plurality of main drive base station units (MDBUs) configured to filter and amplify the RF signals received from the base station according to frequency bands and a main combination/division unit (MCDU) configured to combine the RF signals of the multiple bands output from the plurality of MDBUs or the RF signals of the multiple bands received from the at least one optical distribution unit into one signal using a combiner and divides the combined signal into a plurality of signals using a divider.

7. The optical relay system according to claim 6, wherein the MCDU includes a first combiner configured to combine the RF signals of the multiple bands output from the plurality of MDBUs into one signal, a first divider configured to divide the output signal of the first combiner into a plurality of signals, a second combiner configured to combine the RF signals of the multiple bands received from the at least one optical distribution unit into one signal, and a second divider configured to divide the output signal of the second combiner into a plurality of signals.

8. The optical relay system according to claim 7, wherein the base station interface unit combines the RF signals of the multiple bands into one signal and outputs the combined signal to the at least one optical distribution unit and the at least one optical distribution unit transmits the combined signal to the at least one remote unit.

9. The optical relay system according to claim 8, wherein the at least one optical distribution unit includes a donor optical unit including one laser diode to convert an electrical signal into an optical signal and configured to convert an RF signal obtained by combining the signals of the multiple bands received from the base station interface unit into an optical signal and transmit the optical signal to the at least one remote unit through an optical core.