Optical repeater system for optical communication

• US 4,401,364 A
• Filed: 05/04/1981
• Issued: 08/30/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kokusai Denshin Denwa KK (KDDI Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kokusai Densin Denwa Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Mochizuki, Kiyofumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Moore, David K.
• Application Number:
  US06/260,463
• Time in Patent Office: 848 Days
• Field of Search: 350/96.15, 350/96.16, 455/601, 455/610, 455/612
• US Class Current: 385/27
• CPC Class Codes: H01S 3/302 in an optical fibre
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/2916 using Raman or Brillouin amplifiers

Abstract

An optical repeater system for optical communication that comprises a light source for providing a light of frequency ν₀, and a beam splitter for synthesizing said light from said light source and optical communication signal pulses including Stokes light corresponding to said frequency ν₀ introduced by Raman effect in the optical fibers, the optical repeater system being characterized in that the signal pulses are amplified with induced Raman effect in the optical fiber caused by the light and the dispersion characteristic of the optical fiber.

Claims

1. An optical repeater system for optical communication comprising a light source for emitting a pumping light of frequency ν

_O, means for providing an optical communication signal light, an optical fiber, and a beam splitter synthesizing and directing the pumping light and the optical communication signal light into said optical fiber for concurrent propagation through said fiber, the optical communication signal light containing a frequency component of a Stokes light to be induced by said pumping light due to the Raman effect in the optical fiber, the pumping light and optical communication signal light interacting with one another in said optical fiber whereby the induced Raman effect and the dispersion characteristic of said optical fiber function to amplify the optical communication signal light.

2. An optical repeater system for optical communication according to claim 1, wheren said induced Raman effect is a forward stimulated Raman effect.

3. An optical repeater system for optical communication according to claim 1, wherein said induced Raman effect is a backward stimulated Raman effect.

4. An optical repeater system for optical communication according to claim 1, wherein said induced Raman effect is a combination of a forward and a backward stimulated Raman effects.

5. An optical repeater system for optical communication according to any one of claims 1 or 2 through 4, further comprising an optical equalizer, having a light equalizing function, incorporated in the optical repeater system for optical communication.