Optical transmission device

• US 9,432,113 B2
• Filed: 12/10/2014
• Issued: 08/30/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Oi, Hiroki, Komaki, Kosuke
• Primary Examiner(s): VANDERPUYE, KENNETH N
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sandhu, Amritbir
• Application Number:
  US14/565,500
• Publication Number:
  US 20150098696A1
• Time in Patent Office: 629 Days
• Field of Search: 398/38
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/07955 Monitoring or measuring power
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/0797 Monitoring line amplifier or line repeater equipment
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/564 Power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 14/0212 using optical switches or wavelength selective switches [WSS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 14/02122 Colourless, directionless or contentionless [CDC] arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 14/02126 Multicast switch arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 14/0221 Power control, e.g. to keep the total optical power constant
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 14/02216 by gain equalization
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 11/0003 Details

Abstract

An optical transmission device including a wavelength selective switch including plural output ports, an optical intensity monitoring device that receives each optical signal output from the plural output ports of the wavelength selective switch and monitors the optical intensity of the optical signals, and a controller that controls optical intensity of the optical signals from the plural output ports of the wavelength selective switch based on the optical intensities monitored by the optical intensity monitoring device.

Claims

1. An optical transmission device comprising:

a first wavelength selective switch that includes a plurality of output ports, and is disposed at a drop side of the optical transmission device;

a second wavelength selective switch is disposed at an add side of the optical transmission device;

an optical switch switches between a first optical signal based on optical signals output respectively from the plurality of output ports of the first wavelength selective switch, and a second optical signal based on an optical signal output from an output port of the second wavelength selective switch, selects a signal from the first optical signal and the second optical signal and outputs the selected optical signal;

an optical channel monitor monitors optical intensities of the optical signals output from the optical switch; and

a controller that controls optical intensities of the optical signals from the plurality of output ports of the first wavelength selective switch and an optical intensity of the optical signal from the output port of the second wavelength selective switch respectively, based on the optical intensities monitored by the optical channel monitor device.

2. The optical transmission device of claim 1, wherein the optical channel monitor monitors an optical intensity of each channel.

3. The optical transmission device of claim 1, wherein the optical channel monitor includes a single input port.

4. The optical transmission device of claim 1, further comprising a splitter device that splits optical signals respectively output from the plurality of output ports of the first wavelength selective switch.

5. An optical transmission method comprising:

switching and outputting, by an optical switch, between optical signals output respectively from a first wavelength selective switch that includes a plurality of output ports and that is disposed at a drop side of an optical transmission device, and an optical signal from an output port of a second wavelength selective switch disposed at an add side of the optical transmission device;

monitoring optical intensities of the optical signals output from the optical switch; and

controlling optical intensities of the optical signals from the plurality of output ports of the first wavelength selective switch, and an optical intensity of the optical signal from the output port of the second wavelength selective switch respectively, based on the monitored optical intensities.