Abstract: A film stretching apparatus includes: a pair of first and second link devices configured to be able to carry and stretch a film and each composed of a plurality of links coupled to form an endless chain; a heat treatment unit configured to cover a central portion of the first and second link devices and perform a heat treatment to the film; a sprocket (first link drive mechanism) arranged outside the heat treatment unit and on an inlet side of the film and configured to drive the plurality of links; a sprocket (second link drive mechanism) arranged outside the heat treatment unit and on an outlet side of the film and configured to drive the plurality of links; and a sprocket (link adjustment mechanism) arranged outside the heat treatment unit and on the outlet side of the film and configured to reduce a pitch of the plurality of links.

Abstract: A film stretching apparatus includes: a pair of first and second link devices configured to be able to carry and stretch a film and each composed of a plurality of links coupled to form an endless chain; a heat treatment unit configured to cover a central portion of the first and second link devices and perform a heat treatment to the film; a sprocket (first link drive mechanism) arranged outside the heat treatment unit and on an inlet side of the film and configured to drive the plurality of links; a sprocket (second link drive mechanism) arranged outside the heat treatment unit and on an outlet side of the film and configured to drive the plurality of links; and a sprocket (link adjustment mechanism) arranged outside the heat treatment unit and on the outlet side of the film and configured to reduce a pitch of the plurality of links.

Abstract: Performance of a link apparatus is improved. A link mechanism (11C) included in the link apparatus includes, for example, a roller (110A) fixed to a link shaft (40A) via a bracket (100A), the roller (110A) being contactable with a link retainer (70).

Abstract: A link mechanism 11 includes a pair of rail holders 24. The rail holders 24 include guide rollers 51a, 51b, 52a, and 52b configured to move along rails 13 and 14 while rotating, roller shafts 54 and 55 penetrating the guide rollers 51a, 51b, 52a, and 52b, bearings 56a, 56b, 57a, and 57b interposed between the guide rollers 51a, 51b, 52a, and 52b and the roller shafts 54 and 55 and rotatably supporting the guide rollers 51a, 51b, 52a, and 52b, and lower cover members 71 and upper cover members 72 provided on both end sides of the guide rollers 51a, 51b, 52a, and 52b in an axial direction and covering the bearings 56a, 56b, 57a, and 57b.

Abstract: Link devices include a plurality of link mechanisms which are coupled so as to form an endless chain and can move along two rails. Each of the link mechanisms includes first and second rail holders, a plurality of guide rollers provided on the first rail holder and moving along one rail while rotating, and a plurality of guide rollers provided on the second rail holder and moving along the other rail while rotating. The plurality of link mechanisms include three-roller link mechanisms in each of which three guide rollers are provided on the first rail holder and two-roller link mechanisms in each of which two guide rollers are provided on the first rail holder, and the three-roller link mechanisms and the two-roller link mechanisms are arranged alternately.

Abstract: A film stretching apparatus includes: a pair of first and second link devices configured to be able to carry and stretch a film and each composed of a plurality of links coupled to form an endless chain; a heat treatment unit configured to cover a central portion of the first and second link devices and perform a heat treatment to the film; a sprocket (first link drive mechanism) arranged outside the heat treatment unit and on an inlet side of the film and configured to drive the plurality of links; a sprocket (second link drive mechanism) arranged outside the heat treatment unit and on an outlet side of the film and configured to drive the plurality of links; and a sprocket (link adjustment mechanism) arranged outside the heat treatment unit and on the outlet side of the film and configured to reduce a pitch of the plurality of links.

Abstract: A wavelength conversion apparatus includes a multiplexer-demultiplexer configured to include a first port, a second port, and a third port, a looped non-linear optical medium including one end that is optically connected to the second port of the multiplexer-demultiplexer, another end that is optically connected to the third port of the multiplexer-demultiplexer, and a main axis that rotates by 90 degrees between the second port and the third port, a first filter configured to be inserted into the non-linear optical medium, and remove stimulated Brillouin backscattered light that is bidirectionally generated in the non-linear optical medium, and a second filter configured to take out, from output light that is multiplexed in the multiplexer-demultiplexer after propagating through the non-linear optical medium and is outputted from the first port, conversion light having a third frequency different from the frequencies of a signal light and an excitation light.

Abstract: A wavelength conversion apparatus includes a multiplexer-demultiplexer configured to include a first port, a second port, and a third port, a looped non-linear optical medium including one end that is optically connected to the second port of the multiplexer-demultiplexer, another end that is optically connected to the third port of the multiplexer-demultiplexer, and a main axis that rotates by 90 degrees between the second port and the third port, a first filter configured to be inserted into the non-linear optical medium, and remove stimulated Brillouin backscattered light that is bidirectionally generated in the non-linear optical medium, and a second filter configured to take out, from output light that is multiplexed in the multiplexer-demultiplexer after propagating through the non-linear optical medium and is outputted from the first port, conversion light having a third frequency different from the frequencies of a signal light and an excitation light.

Abstract: An optical transmission system includes a first optical transmission apparatus that adds a plurality of error correction codes to a main signal, retrieves, from a first error correction code that is added to the main signal and that corresponds to a first sub-carrier among the plurality of sub-carriers, a first code portion in excess of a predetermined redundancy level, distributes the first code portion to a second sub-carrier among the plurality of sub-carriers, concatenates a second code portion into the first error correction code, and transmits an optical signal including the main signal multiplexed with the first error correction code that has been concatenated with the second code portion.

Abstract: An optical transmission device in an optical network in which a first optical path and a second optical path are set, the optical transmission device locating on the second optical path, the optical transmission device includes; a storage unit configured to store control data for a control of an optical transmission power to the second optical path, the control being performed based on a training signal received through the second optical path; and a controller configured to control the optical transmission power to the second optical path, based on the control data stored in the storage unit, according to a detection of an optical path change by which an optical path transmitting a main signal is changed from the first optical path to the second optical path.

Abstract: A wavelength selective switch is configured to demultiplex WDM light input from an input side for each wavelength, to supply the demultiplexed signal lights to deflectors corresponding to the demultiplexed wavelength, and to control the deflector to selectively output the demultiplexed signal lights to an output side, in which monitor light having at least a wavelength included in the WDM light is input to the wavelength selective switch from the output side of the wavelength selective switch, and the monitor light input from the output side of the wavelength selective switch is monitored, the monitor light being propagated in a direction opposite to a propagation direction of the signal lights each having the demultiplexed wavelength in the wavelength selective switch and being output to the input side of the wavelength selective switch.

Abstract: An optical transmission apparatus includes: a variable optical attenuation section configured to independently adjust, for each wavelength, attenuation of light of a plurality of wavelengths and adjust output optical power of wavelength multiplexed light that is output to an optical transmission line by adjustment of the attenuation; and a control section configured to stop, in accordance with control in which a wavelength included in the wavelength multiplexed light in a first wavelength band is wavelength-shifted to a second wavelength band that is different from the first wavelength band, adjustment of attenuation performed on the first wavelength band by the variable optical attenuation section.

Abstract: An optical transmission device includes: a wavelength filter configured to allow passage of an optical signal having a band; a monitor configured to monitor a wavelength of the optical signal; and a controller configured to detect, based on a monitoring result of the monitor, a change in the wavelength of the optical signal, to predict, based on the detected result, a direction of the change in the wavelength of the optical signal, and to expand a passband of the wavelength filter in the direction of the change.

Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes: a first output unit configured to generate a first optical signal of which a first wavelength is variable and control the first wavelength to be close to a second wavelength of a second optical signal transmitted as a multiplexed optical signal with the first optical signal, the first output unit outputting the first optical signal to another transmission apparatus; and a second output unit configured to generate a third optical signal that is replication of the first optical signal in a wavelength band opposite to the first wavelength across the second wavelength, the second output unit outputting the third optical signal to the another transmission apparatus, wherein the first output unit stops outputting the first optical signal when the another transmission apparatus switches an optical signal to be received from the first optical signal to the third optical signal.

Abstract: An optical transmission system includes: a first optical transmission apparatus configured to add an error correction code (ECC) having a code length in accordance with transmission quality of each of sub-carriers forming a super channel to a main signal, retrieve, from the ECC added to the main signal on a sub-carrier to be processed, a code portion in excess of a predetermined redundancy level, distribute the code portion to another sub-carrier, and concatenate the code portion of the ECC to be added to a main signal on the another sub-carrier into the ECC added to a main signal on the sub-carrier to be processed; and a second optical transmission apparatus configured to concatenate the cord portion of the ECC distributed from another sub-carrier into the ECC included in the optical signal, and decode a main signal in the optical signal on a corresponding sub-carrier by using the concatenated ECC.

Abstract: An optical transmission device in an optical network in which a first optical path and a second optical path are set, the optical transmission device locating on the second optical path, the optical transmission device includes; a storage unit configured to store control data for a control of an optical transmission power to the second optical path, the control being performed based on a training signal received through the second optical path; and a controller configured to control the optical transmission power to the second optical path, based on the control data stored in the storage unit, according to a detection of an optical path change by which an optical path transmitting a main signal is changed from the first optical path to the second optical path.

Abstract: An optical transmission device includes: a spectral element configured to disperse an incident light beam in a first direction according to a wavelength of the incident light beam; a mirror array configured by a plurality of mirrors, each mirror having a reflective surface in which a reflection angle is adjustable and to which the incident light beam dispersed in the first direction is incident, the reflective surface being arranged on a plane formed by the first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; a plurality of ports arranged in the second direction; and a controller configured to adjust the reflection angle, so that a light beam reflected at the reflective surface is outputted to the port according to a region segmented in the second direction in the mirror array, the dispersed incident light beam that has a specified wavelength band being incident to the reflective surface.

Abstract: An optical transmission device includes: a reception unit configured to receive a plurality of light beams and wavelength allocation information of optical signals included in each of the light beams; a demultiplexing unit configured to demultiplex the plurality of light beams received; a plurality of switches configured to switch between transmitting or blocking with respect to the demultiplexed plurality of light beams; a multiplexing unit configured to multiplex light beams transmitted from the plurality of switches; a monitoring unit configured to monitor an intensity of the multiplexed light beams; and a controller configured to, based on the wavelength allocation information, obtain a combination of the light beams not including the optical signals having overlapping wavelengths, and control the plurality of switches in accordance with the combination.

Abstract: An optical transmission apparatus includes: a variable optical attenuation section configured to independently adjust, for each wavelength, attenuation of light of a plurality of wavelengths and adjust output optical power of wavelength multiplexed light that is output to an optical transmission line by adjustment of the attenuation; and a control section configured to stop, in accordance with control in which a wavelength included in the wavelength multiplexed light in a first wavelength band is wavelength-shifted to a second wavelength band that is different from the first wavelength band, adjustment of attenuation performed on the first wavelength band by the variable optical attenuation section.

Abstract: An optical transmission apparatus includes a frame demultiplexer configured to demultiplex a frame signal, and a transmission process unit configured to modulate the frame signal demultiplexed by the frame demultiplexer to a plurality of subcarrier signals of different wavelengths and transmit the plurality of subcarrier signals, wherein the transmission process unit switches the subcarrier signal that is one of the plurality of subcarrier signals and at which a failure is detected to a subcarrier signal of a backup wavelength different from wavelengths of the plurality of subcarrier signals.