Abstract: A distortion compensation circuit compensates for distortion generated by one or more non-linear elements such as a laser device and/or an optical fiber and may include a primary signal path for carrying an input signal and a secondary signal paths for generating distortion. The distortion compensation circuit may also include a controllable phase inverters and a tunable filter. For example, the secondary signal path may include a distortion generator to produce distortion products from the input signal and a signal controlled phase inverter that inverts the phase of the distortion products and a tunable filter that adjusts the phase of the frequency dependent distortion. The phase inversion and tunable filter may be controlled in response to control signals generated based on one or more parameters such as, for example, laser power, input RF channel loading, temperature, and fiber length.

Abstract: A receiving unit using a voltage-controlled oscillator is allowed to compensate for the frequency characteristics of the voltage-controlled oscillator resulting from temperature change, without adding a capacitive element for temperature compensation. A receiving unit and an optical line terminal include a clock and data recovery circuit that extracts a clock signal and a data signal from a received signal, and have: a calibrator that calibrates an oscillation frequency of a voltage-controlled oscillator included in the clock and data recovery circuit; and a managing unit having a function of managing a schedule for receiving signals, the managing unit selecting a time where a duration of a certain state meets a time required for calibration by the calibrator to thereby output a reset signal (calibration instruction signal) to the calibrator, the state having no received signal (upstream signal) from which a clock signal and a data signal are to be extracted.

Abstract: Exemplary optical communication devices are described which, in certain embodiments, derive power optically from and communicate optically to a reading device. The communication devices may also receive data from modulated light from the reading device to achieve a bi-directional optical communication link between the self-powered optical communication device and the reading device. In some embodiments, the communication device is powered by ambient light, such as sunlight, captures data from a sensor, and communicates the stored data some time later to a reading device. In some embodiments, the communication device is powered locally and communicates through air, optical fiber, or other medium with another communication device.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a transmission system includes a transmitter, and a receiver. The transmitter includes one or a plurality of light sources, a modulator, a first driver, a display, and a second driver. The one or a plurality of light sources is configured to emit a visible light whose light amount corresponds to a first drive signal. The modulator is configured to, according to transmission data to be transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver, modulate a first luminance signal indicative of an amount of the light the light source is configured to emit, to generate a second luminance signal. The first driver is configured to generate the first drive signal based on the second luminance signal. A mean of the second luminance signal during one frame in the input video signal is substantially equal to a value of the first luminance signal in the frame.

Abstract: This invention provides an approach to lock the optical phase of a single sideband, carrier-suppressed coherent-AM analog optical link, so that for example an RF signal can be transmitted with high fidelity over fibers. In some embodiments, a method comprises providing a RF locking signal; impressing an RF input signal and the RF locking signal onto the optical field of a suppressed carrier; introducing the optical spectrum to a photonic integrated circuit comprising a microresonator filter and a finite impulse response filter; selectively passing the double sideband, associated with the locking frequency, through the finite impulse response filter; and recovering a RF output signal, wherein a feedback loop provides dithering to stabilize the optical phase of the link and thus preserve amplitude/phase integrity for the RF-photonic signal. The disclosed method is especially suited to the filtering of RF-photonic signals via use of the resonance passbands derived from microdisks or micro-rings.

Abstract: Optical regenerators and amplifiers are expensive to implement and maintain. A method or corresponding apparatus in an example embodiment of the present invention relates to an optical planning tool that plans an optical network configuration by determining a plurality of costs for maintaining signal strength in corresponding network configurations including (i) a configuration of regenerators, (ii) a configuration of pre-or post-amplifiers, and (iii) a configuration of pre- and post-amplifiers in candidate locations and regenerator modules. The candidate locations for placing pre-or post-amplifiers are determined based on loss in each span, expected traffic patterns, and proposed regeneration locations along paths of expected traffic. The regeneration modules are located in locations determined based on the candidate locations. The example embodiment selects a configuration from among the network configurations as a function of the plurality of costs, helping reduce the cost of network deployment.

Abstract: To provide a technology of preventing an optical signal from being mistakenly recognized as an optical noise even when a surge occurs. A control device of a node that transfers signal light monitors inputted light, determines, when power of the inputted light reaches a saturation level of a monitor unit as a result of monitoring, that the inputted light is signal light, further determines based on a spectral line shape of the inputted light, when the power thereof does not reach the saturation level, whether the inputted light is the signal light or ASE light; and stops a transfer of the ASE light if determined to be the ASE light.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the invention relate to an optical transceiver in which the base portion is made of a light permeable material and configured to emit light representative of the status of certain transceiver parameters. The transceiver includes a housing which at least partially encloses the base portion. The base portion connects to a printed circuit board on which a light-emitting diode is mounted. Light from the light-emitting diode is conducted to front portion of the base, which is light permeable, through a light-pipe assembly, thereby illuminating the entire front portion of the base. Because the front portion of the base is not enclosed within the housing the light emitted is clearly visible from a distance even when fiber connectors are plugged into the transceiver receptacles.

Abstract: A polarization-insensitive optical receiver for demodulating a phase-modulated input optical signal is provided. The optical receiver includes successively a polarization splitter, a first and second interferometric modules including respective delay lines, and a plurality of detectors. The input optical signal is split into two substantially orthogonally-polarized components, which are launched along respective optical paths into the corresponding interferometric modules where they demodulated and subsequently recombined prior to being detected by the plurality of detectors. Advantageously, the optical receiver allows mitigating undesired discrepancies between the optical paths traveled by the two polarization components by arranging the respective delay lines of the interferometric modules into intertwined spiraling structures.

Abstract: Method and system for band blocking in an optical telecommunication network. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a system for optical network. The system includes an input that is configured to receive an input signal through a first optical input. The system also includes a band splitting module that is coupled to the input. The band splitting module is configured to separate the input signal into a plurality of bands. The plurality of bands includes a first band and a second band. The first band includes a first plurality of wave channels. The first plurality of wave channels is characterized by a first channel spacing. The second band includes a second plurality of wave channels, which is characterized by a second channel spacing.

Abstract: A system for delivering optical power over optical conduits includes at least one optical power source delivering multiple optical power forms to multiple outlet nodes in a variety of applications.

Abstract: A circuit and a method for controlling multi-channel power are disclosed. The method includes: according to a channel selection signal in the previous clock cycle, select one channel signal from the received at least one channel signal in the previous clock cycle; according to an amplification factor control signal in the previous clock cycle, amplify the selected one channel signal to acquire a first signal; perform A/D conversion on the first signal to acquire a second signal; and according to the second signal, generate an amplification factor control signal in the next clock cycle, so that according to the amplification multiple control signal in the next clock cycle, amplify the selected one channel signal in the next clock cycle when the next clock cycle comes. The scheme can be used to detect the multi-channel optical power and its circuit implementation is simple.

Abstract: A packet-optical integrated transport apparatus includes a packet transmitter for outputting single-wavelength signal multiplexed to a preset channel on the basis of packet traffic or circuit traffic input from a metro access region, and an optical transmitter for multiplexing the single-wavelength signal output from the packet transmitter to a multi-channel wavelength signal and adding or dropping the multiplexed multi-channel wavelength signal to or from a node. The apparatus further includes a system controller for transmitting constituent element initialization information to the packet transmitter and the optical transmitter and receiving constituent element operation status information.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for accessing the digital diagnostic data and controller data of a remote transceiver module via the diagnostic port of a local transceiver. The invention involves modulating high-speed data and out-of-band data as a double modulated signal, wherein the out-of-band data includes the remote transceiver controller and digital diagnostic data, which is subsequently accessible by an external user device from the diagnostic port of the local transceiver.

Abstract: Switching architectures for WDM mesh and ring network nodes are presented. In mesh networks, the switching architectures have multiple levels—a network level having wavelength routers for add, drop and pass-through functions, an intermediate level having device units which handle add and drop signals, and a local level having port units for receiving signals dropped from the network and transmitting signals to be added to the network. The intermediate level device units are selected and arranged for performance and cost considerations. The multilevel architecture also permits the design of reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers for ring network nodes, the easy expansion of ring networks into mesh networks, and the accommodation of protection mechanisms in ring networks.

Abstract: A transmission-path-type specifying apparatus includes an optical filter that extracts a plurality of different wavelength components from light including wavelength components occurring at the time of communication; an optical switch that simultaneously transmits same pulse signals superposed on light of the extracted wavelength components. The apparatus also includes an ASE modulation controlling unit that obtains a delay-time difference among the transmitted pulse signals when arriving at a destination via a transmission path; a characteristic-value calculating unit that calculates a characteristic value of the transmission path corresponding to a reference time varied depending on the obtained delay-time difference and a type of the transmission path; and a fiber-type determining unit that specifies the type of the transmission path based on the calculated characteristic value.

Abstract: A data center for executing a data processing application includes processing units, sub-units or servers. Each of the processing units, sub-units or servers can execute a part or all of the data processing application. The processing units, sub-units or servers are electrical disjoint with respect to data communications, but can communicate with each other over free space optical links.

Abstract: A method for realizing interaction of optical channel data unit (ODUk) protection tangent rings are provided. A node used for protection of the ODUk and a receiving unit, a sending unit, a protected receiving unit and a protected sending unit on the node are selected. A connection between a receiving service unit and the protected sending unit with the same transmission direction on the node is established, or a connection between a sending service unit and the protected receiving unit with the same transmission direction on the node is established. Two virtual nodes are established on the node if the node is an intersection node, and connections between the receiving service unit and the protected sending unit, and between the sending service unit and the protected receiving unit are established respectively in each direction of both directions through one of the virtual nodes.

Abstract: The present invention provides a high-speed 100G optical transceiver for InfiniBand and Ethernet with associated mapping to frame InfiniBand and Ethernet into GFP-T. The optical transceiver utilizes an architecture which relies on standards-compliant (i.e., multi-sourced) physical client interfaces. These client interfaces are back-ended with flexible, programmable Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) modules to accomplish either InfiniBand or Ethernet protocol control, processing, re-framing, and the like. Next, signals are encoded with Forward Error Correction (FEC) and can include additional Optical Transport Unit (OTU) compliant framing structures. The resulting data is processed appropriately for the subsequent optical re-transmission, such as, for example, with differential encoding, Gray encoding, I/Q Quadrature encoding, and the like. The data is sent to an optical transmitter block and modulated onto an optical carrier. Also, the same process proceeds in reverse on the receive side.

Abstract: Methods, algorithms, architectures, circuits, and/or systems for dynamically allocating memory for storing parametric data in optical transceivers are disclosed. The optical transceiver can include an optical receiver configured to receive optical data; an optical transmitter configured to transmit optical data; a microprocessor configured to access data for each of a plurality of parameters that are related to operation of at least one of the optical receiver and the optical transmitter; one or more memories configured to store the data at a plurality of locations that are dynamically allocated by the microprocessor; and an interface configured to receive a request for data for one or more of the parameters from a host and provide the data in response to the request. In the present disclosure, the host is unaware of the locations at which the parametric data are stored.