Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is an optical transmitter including: a first modulation unit configured to generate an optical modulated signal through intensity modulation of an optical signal; a second modulation unit configured to generate an optical modulated signal through phase/frequency modulation of the optical signal; and a modulation scheme switching unit configured to switch a modulator of the optical signal to one of the first and second modulation units. The modulation scheme switching unit switches the modulator to a modulation unit corresponding to a device of a connection destination between the first and second modulation units.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is an optical communication control device including an acquisition unit that acquires an optical power of an optical signal transmitted from a transmission device, a derivation unit that derives an attenuation amount for setting the optical power of the optical signal transmitted from the transmission device to an optical power receivable by a receiver device in a case in which the optical power acquired by the acquisition unit exceeds the optical power receivable by the receiver device, and an attenuation unit that causes an attenuator that attenuates the optical power of the optical signal transmitted from the transmission device to attenuate the optical power with the attenuation amount derived by the derivation unit.

Abstract: An optical signal processing apparatus includes a removal unit and a superimposition unit. The removal unit receives, from a first optical transmission path, an optical signal converted from an electrical signal, in which a first signal and a second signal having different frequencies from each other have been superimposed, and removes the second signal from the optical signal which has been input. The superimposition unit superimposes a third signal having a frequency different from a frequency of the first signal on the optical signal in which the second signal has been removed by the removal unit, and outputs the optical signal in which the third signal has been superimposed to a second optical transmission path.

Abstract: A transmitter management device includes: a reception unit that receives a virtual switch configuration request from an upper management system; a determination unit that determines a plurality of paths including transfer processing by different optical transmitters on the basis of the configuration request received by the reception unit; and a setting unit that performs a setting for a plurality of the optical transmitters in such a way that a virtual switch that executes transfer processing on the basis of the paths determined by the determination unit is configured for each one of a plurality of the paths.

Abstract: An optical node device to which a first subscriber device and a second subscriber device are connected in an optical communication system in which the first subscriber device and the second subscriber device are mixed, the first subscriber device being connected by one core using different wavelengths in transmission and reception, the second subscriber device being connected by two cores using the same wavelength in transmission and reception, the optical node device including: a transmission/reception separator that transfers an optical signal transmitted from the first subscriber device and an optical signal addressed to the first subscriber device without interference; and an optical switch that controls a connection relationship between ports such that an optical signal transmitted from the first subscriber device or an optical signal addressed to the first subscriber device passes through the transmission/reception separator and an optical signal transmitted from the second subscriber device or an optic

Abstract: The optical communication system includes the optical distribution device (100) provided between the wavelength routing device (30) and the optical multiplexing/demultiplexing device (40). The wavelength routing device outputs the optical signal input from the port on the wavelength variable subscriber device side to the port uniquely determined by a combination of the wavelength of the optical signal and the port to which the optical signal is inputted. The wavelength variable subscriber device can execute the first protection for switching the wavelength of the optical signal to be transmitted and received to the spare wavelength different from the operating wavelength when the wavelength variable subscriber device and the wavelength variable communication device (10) are disconnected.

Abstract: An optical communication system including a subscriber device that performs optical connection with other subscriber device by End-End, and a management control device that controls each subscriber device, wherein the subscriber device includes an optical signal transmission unit configured to transmit an optical signal, an optical signal reception unit configured to receive an optical signal transmitted from the other subscriber device, and an output function unit configured to output an optical signal outputted by the optical signal transmission unit to an optical transmission line regardless of a wavelength and outputs an optical signal inputted from the optical transmission line to the optical signal reception unit regardless of the wavelength, and the management control device allocates wavelengths so that a transmission wavelength of the subscriber device becomes a reception wavelength of the other subscriber device and a transmission wavelength of the other subscriber device becomes a reception wavelen

Abstract: An optical switch having a plurality of ports outputs an optical signal received from a first port that is one of the plurality of ports connected to an optical communication device from a second port that another one of the plurality of ports according to a transmission path of an optical signal. An optical branching part branches an optical signal which has been output from a second port in accordance with a branching ratio. A measurement part measures a round trip time by transmitting and receiving an optical signal to and from an optical communication device through an optical switch, and calculates a transmission distance of the optical signal on the basis of the measured round trip time. An instruction part instructs, the optical branching part, of the branching ratio determined on the basis of the calculated transmission distance.

Abstract: Provided is an optical receiver including: a heterodyne detection unit that converts, by heterodyne detection, a subcarrier multiplexed signal in which a plurality of optical signals transmitted from a plurality of optical transmitters are multiplexed, into an electrical signal in an intermediate frequency band; a filter unit that removes a carrier component from the electrical signal in the intermediate frequency band, generated by the conversion, to extract a subcarrier component; an analog-digital conversion unit that performs analog-digital conversion on a signal having the subcarrier component, extracted by the filter unit; and a digital signal processing unit that performs digital signal processing for each subcarrier on a digital signal generated by the analog-digital conversion performed by the analog-digital conversion unit.

Abstract: An optical communication system including: a management control device that manages communication between one or more first subscriber devices and one or more second subscriber devices that are provided at counterpart locations of the one or more first subscriber devices, in which the management control device includes a control signal generation unit that generates a control signal that is transmitted to the one or more first subscriber devices and used for management and control, and an optical transmission unit that converts the control signal generated by the control signal generation unit into an optical signal with a wavelength that is different from a wavelength of a main signal transmitted by the one or more second subscriber devices that perform communication with the one or more first subscriber devices and transmits the optical signal, and the optical communication system includes an optical multiplexing unit that is provided on a communication path between the one or more first subscriber devices

Abstract: Provided is an optical access system that performs communication using an optical signal on which a management control signal used for management and control is superimposed, the optical access system including: a subscriber device on a transmitting side that generates an optical signal by superimposing the management control signal on a main signal and transmits the generated optical signal; a management control unit that outputs a management control signal which is superimposed on the optical signal transmitted by the subscriber device on the transmitting side and which has a frequency band different from a frequency of the management control signal superimposed on the optical signal; and a control signal superimposing unit that superimposes the management control signal output from the management control unit on the optical signal.

Abstract: A line concentration optical communication device that communicates with a plurality of optical communication devices by free-space optical communication includes: an optical device control unit that controls an angle of a spatial optical device in each time slot on the basis of angle information and the time slot, the angle information being information indicating an angle at which each of the optical communication devices and the spatial optical device whose angle is controllable can communicate with each other, the time slot indicating a communicable time allocated to each of the optical communication devices; and an optical communication unit that performs communication with each of the optical communication devices via the spatial optical device.

Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure is a transmission system including a modulated wave generation unit that generates an intermediate wave, which is a coherent wave in which a frequency component of either of two signals overlays a frequency spectrum, the two signals being a main signal indicating transmitted information to be transmitted and a control signal indicating management information, which is information on communication between a transmission source of the transmitted information and a communication destination of the transmission source, and a modulation unit that modulates the intermediate wave with a signal in which a frequency component does not overlay the frequency spectrum of the coherent wave generated by the modulated wave generation unit out of the two signals that are the main signal and the control signal. In the transmission system, a frequency band of the main signal and a frequency band of the control signal do not overlap each other.

Abstract: A communication method includes, in a state where first information equipment and second information equipment are communicatively connected via optical switches and an optical communication network, switching, by an optical switch to which the first information equipment is connected, a connection destination of the first information equipment from an input/output port connected to the optical communication network to a control port to which the control device is connected in response to a predetermined operation of the first information equipment, receiving, by the control device, information indicating third information equipment that is a communication connection destination different from the second information equipment via the control port of the optical switches from the first information equipment, allocating, by the control device, a wavelength used for communication to the first information equipment and the third information equipment based on information indicating the communication connection de

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a moving body that moves along a rail, the moving body including: a light emission unit; a movement control unit that controls the moving body so as to move on the rail at a predetermined speed; a measurement unit that measures a movement time of moving from a predetermined position on the rail; and a transmission unit that transmits a signal indicating position information corresponding to the movement time measured by the measurement unit by using the light emission unit.

Abstract: An optical switch receives an input of an optical signal which has been transmitted by a first optical communication device from a first port, and outputs the optical signal from a second port connected to a first optical transmission line included in an optical route in which an optical path between the first optical communication device and a second optical communication device is set. An optical branching unit branches a part of the optical signal which has been transmitted through the first optical transmission line, and outputs the branched optical signal to a second optical transmission line. An optical transmitting and receiving apparatus includes a reception unit, a transmission unit, and a light cutoff unit. The reception unit receives an input of the optical signal which has been branched by the optical branching unit from the second optical transmission line, and acquires a signal addressed to a destination different from the second optical communication device from the input optical signal.

Abstract: A reception unit, in which a range of an electric band is in a range from ?Be to +Be and Be >B/2 is satisfied, receives signal light of a symbol rate B generated by optically modulating transmission data, performs digital coherent reception by interfering the received signal light with the local oscillation light generated by the local oscillation light source, converts the signal light into an electric digital signal, and output the digital signal, and a frequency offset compensation unit provided in a digital signal processing unit estimates a frequency offset amount generated in the digital signal in a range of ?B/2 or more and +B/2 or less in accordance with a frequency difference between the signal light and the local oscillation light, and perform frequency offset compensation for the digital signal on the basis of the estimated frequency offset amount to compensate the frequency offset amount in a range of ?B/2 or more and +B/2 or less and compensate so as to remain the frequency offset amount of an

Abstract: A communication device includes: a MAC unit that processes a main signal including a payload, and determines a communication timing of the main signal; a communication unit that performs, based on the communication timing, at least one of transmission processing for E/O converting the main signal acquired from the MAC unit, and transmitting the main signal to a communication counterpart device, and reception processing for O/E converting the main signal received from the communication counterpart device; a main signal transmission line through which the main signal is transmitted between the MAC unit and the communication unit; and a control information transmission line that is provided separately from the main signal transmission line, and through which communication timing data that is data indicating the communication timing is transmitted from the MAC unit to the communication unit.

Abstract: The communication device includes: a reception unit that receives burst frame signals from a plurality of other communication devices respectively; and a control unit that changes a block length of a moving average filter in carrier phase synchronization so as to minimize a phase noise amount of the burst frame signals.

Abstract: A communication system includes a subscriber network unit and a communication device provided in an accommodating station. The subscriber network unit includes an acquisition unit that acquires uplink data from one or more lower-layer devices. The communication device includes: a data processing unit that acquires the uplink data from the subscriber network unit using a band of uplink communication and executes data processing on the acquired uplink data; a policy determination unit that determines a policy of band allocation of the uplink communication on the basis of the result of the data processing; and an allocation control unit that allocates the band of the uplink communication to the subscriber network unit on the basis of the policy.