WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXING TRANSMISSION SYSTEM

• US 20160254862A1
• Filed: 11/20/2014
• Published: 09/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2013
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: HAYASHI, Shusaku
• Application Number:
  US15/026,646
• Publication Number:
  US 20160254862A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/07953 Monitoring or measuring OSNR, BER or Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/0799 Monitoring line transmitter or line receiver equipment
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/564 Power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/674 using a variable optical attenuator
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 14/0221 Power control, e.g. to keep the total optical power constant
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 14/06 Polarisation multiplex systems

Abstract

A wavelength multiplexing transmission system including an optical transmission and reception device including a plurality of transponders each having a plurality of optical transmitters and receivers, a BER monitoring device to monitor the BERs of the optical transmitters and receivers, variable optical attenuators to attenuate light signals outputted from the optical transmitters and receivers, a controller to control the amounts of attenuation of the variable optical attenuators such that the sum total of the BERs of the optical transmitters and receivers becomes small, and an optical multiplexing and demultiplexing device to multiplex the light signals attenuated into a light signal and transmit this light signal to outside the system, and demultiplex a light signal from outside the system into light signals and transmit these light signals to the optical transmitters and receivers.

Claims

1. A wavelength multiplexing transmission system comprising:

an optical transmission and reception device including a plurality of transponders each having a plurality of optical transmitters and receivers disposed therein;

a BER monitoring device to monitor BERs of said optical transmitters and receivers;

variable optical attenuators to attenuate light signals outputted from said optical transmitters and receivers;

a controller to control amounts of attenuation of said variable optical attenuators in such a way that a sum total of the BERs of said optical transmitters and receivers which are monitored by said BEE monitoring device becomes small; and

an optical multiplexing and demultiplexing device to multiplex the light signals attenuated by said variable optical attenuators in a light signal and transmit this light signal to outside the wavelength multiplexing transmission system, and demultiplex a light signal from outside said wavelength multiplexing transmission system into light signals and transmit these light signals to said optical transmitters and receivers.

2. A wavelength multiplexing transmission system comprising:

an optical transmission and reception device including a plurality of transponders each having a plurality of optical transmitters and receivers disposed therein;

polarization controllers to control polarizations of light signals outputted from said optical transmitter and receivers for each of said transponders in such a way that the polarizations are deviated from one another at equal intervals; and

an optical multiplexing and demultiplexing device to multiplex the light signals whose polarizations are controlled by said polarization controllers into a light signal and transmit this light signal to outside the wavelength multiplexing transmission system, and demultiplex a light signal from outside the wavelength multiplexing transmission system into light signals and transmit these light signals to said optical transmitters and receivers.

3. A wavelength multiplexing transmission system comprising:

an optical transmission and reception device including a plurality of transponders each having a plurality of optical transmitters and receivers disposed therein;

a timing monitor to monitor modulation timings of said optical transmitters and receivers;

a timing controller to control the modulation timings monitored by said timing monitor in such a way that the modulation timings are shifted relative to one another among said optical transmitters and receivers; and

an optical multiplexing and demultiplexing device to multiplex light signals outputted from said optical transmitters and receivers into a light signal and transmit this light signal to outside the wavelength multiplexing transmission system, and demultiplex a light signal from outside the wavelength multiplexing transmission system into light signals and transmit these light signals to said optical transmitters and receivers.