Abstract: An optical switch device is disclosed that includes an optical system deflecting and outputting input light signals using deflector parts; resistor parts provided in corresponding routes for feeding driving signals output from drivers to the corresponding deflector parts; a signal generator part generating a DC signal and an AC signal and feeding the DC and AC signals to the deflector parts through the corresponding drivers and the corresponding resistors; a threshold generator part generating a first threshold and a second threshold corresponding to the DC and AC signals, respectively; a voltage detector part detecting a voltage across each of the resistor parts; and a failure detector part determining whether the deflector parts are normal or out of order based on the corresponding results of comparing the voltages detected by the voltage detector part with at least one of the first threshold and the second threshold.

Abstract: A light source supplies optical signal to an optical switch and a detector detects light receiving level. A control unit changes a deflection control amount for changing an angle of a tilt mirror, and outputs the deflection control amount to a driving unit. When an input and an output ports are same, optical offset of the tilt mirror is calculated based on optimal angle at which the light detector detects an optimal point of the light receiving level. Whenever the input and the output port are different, a structure parameter of the tilt mirror is calculated based on the optical offset and the optimal angle. The optical offset and the structure parameter are stored in a memory as a test result.

Abstract: An optical exchange for a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) network performs a switching operation on a plurality of optical signals, which are input via a plurality of input ports, and outputs the resulting optical signals to a plurality of output ports, which are allocated to the input ports, by making deflection the optical signal; target amounts of the deflection to which the respective input optical signals are stored. The deflection is made using a switching controller, which reads out the target amount of deflection for such destination-of-switching output port with respect to such object-of-switching port, and controlling the deflection in such a manner that the individual input optical signals are deflected based on the respective target amounts of deflection. And during the switching, the power-level controller performs a feedback control for adjusting a power level of the individual deflected output optical signal to a target power level.

Abstract: A stabilization apparatus according to the present invention comprises a stopper which is in contact under pressure with one side face of a movable body capable of swinging around a torsion bar, this one side face being vertical to an axial direction of the movable body, to damp the movable body. The stopper is displaced between a first position at which the stopper is in contact under pressure with the side face of the movable body, and a second position apart from the side face, according to a drive voltage applied to a stopper electrode. The drive voltage for the stopper electrode is controlled by a control section at the appropriate timing according to a drive condition of the movable body. As a result, the resonance operation can be reliably suppressed even when an angle of the movable mirror is changed at a high speed, and thus, it becomes possible to stabilize the movable mirror to be in a desired state in a short time.

Abstract: A light receiving device is disclosed by which a reception characteristic of a light receiving system can be improved. The light receiving device includes a photoelectric conversion element for receiving a light signal and performing photoelectric conversion of the light signal, and a data detection section for using an decision level for the light signal received by the photoelectric conversion element to detect modulation data included in the light signal. The light received device further includes an decision level control section for feedforward controlling the decision level to be used by the data detection section based on a level of the received light signal.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a control apparatus and control method for an optical switch with a three-dimensional structure using MEMS mirrors, that can accurately compensate for a change in characteristic due to a temperature variation from an initial setting time, to perform the high speed switching of optical paths.

Abstract: A controlling apparatus and a controlling method of an optical switching device are capable of automatically correcting angle deviations of tilt-mirrors to thereby reduce an optical loss.

Abstract: A multiplexing/demultiplexing unit demultiplexes an input light according to a wavelength, and multiplexes a plurality of wavelength components from a plurality of semiconductor optical amplifiers into a multiplexed light. A control unit performs a gain control for each of the semiconductor optical amplifiers. A receiving unit receives an optical signal after performing the gain control for each of a plurality of semiconductor optical amplifiers belonging to each subscriber-side apparatus, based on each of the wavelength components included in the multiplexed light.

Abstract: A mirror controller of an optical switch comprises a signal generator (10, 82, 83) for passing the optical signal on the same light path as the one for optical communication using the optical switch, and an image analyzer (15, 16, 81) detecting the optical signal as the light scattered by at least one of tilt mirrors (111, 123) and an output collimator array (14). The image analyzer detects the position of the light beam image as a control position (121, 141, 85) based on the scattered light, and controls the tilt mirrors in such a manner that the detected control position coincides with the predetermined desired target position (122, 142, 84, 86) on at least one of the tilt mirrors and the output collimator array. The mirror controller can realize the connection test of the optical signal between input and output with high accuracy and reliability.

Abstract: A drive unit for controlling optical paths of an optical switch having at least one optical switch element and at least one pair of electrodes arranged near the optical switch element, each pair including a first electrode and a second electrode provided at a position opposite to the first electrode. The drive unit includes at least one drive circuit for the at least one optical switch element, respectively. The drive circuit has an output for supplying voltages to the electrodes to generate electrostatic forces between the electrodes and the optical switch element and the voltages are separated into positive voltages supplied to the first electrode and negative voltages supplied to the second electrode.

Abstract: A light receiving device is disclosed by which a reception characteristic of a light receiving system can be improved. The light receiving device includes a photoelectric conversion element for receiving a light signal and performing photoelectric conversion of the light signal, and a data detection section for using an decision level for the light signal received by the photoelectric conversion element to detect modulation data included in the light signal. The light received device further includes an decision level control section for feedforward controlling the decision level to be used by the data detection section based on a level of the received light signal.

Abstract: The apparatus controls a tilt angle of a tilt mirror in high speed with high stability, realizing non-linearity compensation. The apparatus includes: a control signal producing unit, which produces a control signal, for feed-forward controlling of the mirror into a target tilt angle, based on a parameter that determines the target tilt angle; a digital filter for removing a resonance frequency component, which is caused by an angle response of the tilt mirror, in the control signal, which is produced by the control signal producing unit; and a square root calculating unit for performing digital square-root calculation so that non-linearity of the control signal, from which the resonance frequency component has been removed, is compensated for.

Abstract: A light source supplies optical signal to an optical switch and a detector detects light receiving level. A control unit changes a deflection control amount for changing an angle of a tilt mirror, and outputs the deflection control amount to a driving unit. When an input and an output ports are same, optical offset of the tilt mirror is calculated based on optimal angle at which the light detector detects an optimal point of the light receiving level. Whenever the input and the output port are different, a structure parameter of the tilt mirror is calculated based on the optical offset and the optimal angle. The optical offset and the structure parameter are stored in a memory as a test result.

Abstract: A flash lamp device having a flash lamp that includes an arc tube in which a pair of electrodes are disposed in opposition and a high voltage supply proximal conductor which extends parallel to the electrodes, on the exterior of the arc tube of the flash lamp. The high voltage supply proximal conductor is supported in an interior space of a sealed tubular body having a dielectric member with a greater permittivity than that of air.

Abstract: A controlling apparatus for a spatial optical switch having a deflecting means which has two or more deflection axes, and controls deflection angles around deflection axes to deflect an optical path of an input light beam from any one of a plurality of input ports, and outputs the input light beam to any one of a plurality of output ports. The controlling apparatus comprises an optical detecting means for detecting an output optical level from the output port in order to control the output optical level of the spatial optical switch at a high resolution, and a controlling means for controlling the output optical level detected by the optical detecting means to a desired output optical level by controlling a deflection angle around one deflection axis of the deflection means, then controlling a deflection angle about another deflection axis of the deflecting means.

Abstract: An optical transceiver module is constituted so as to have an optical transmission module, an optical receiving module, a drive circuit board for driving the optical transmission module and the optical receiving module, and short-circuit means which induces an electrical short circuit between housings of the respective modules or induces an electrical short circuit between ground (GND) terminals of the respective modules on the module sides with respect to the drive circuit board. As a result, in the optical transceiver module, stray capacitance and stray inductance in lead pins, housings, and internal components of optical devices, such as an LD and a PD, are removed, thereby suppressing fluctuations in the potential (GND) of an LD housing which arise during high-frequency driving operation, as well as considerably suppressing electrical crosstalk between the transmission and receiving modules.

Abstract: A flash lamp with high radiation intensity which has a discharge vessel having a part in the region between the electrodes which has a smaller diameter than the inside diameter of the discharge vessel in the area in which the cathode is located, and the inner surface of the part of smaller diameter being provided with a heat-resistant material. A xenon gas is filled into the vessel at a room temperature pressure from 1.3×103 Pa to 1.6×105 Pa or a krypton gas is filled at 7×102 Pa to 1.3×105 Pa. A power supply operates the flash lamp with a full width at half maximum of the current from 150 ?s to 2 ms and a current density in the part with a small diameter of at least 2110 A/cm2 when xenon is used and at least 2930 A/cm2 when krypton is used.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a terminal device including a photodetector, amplitude detecting circuit, light source, drive circuit, and control circuit. The photodetector receives a first optical signal. The amplitude detecting circuit detects the amplitude of an output from the photodetector. The drive circuit supplies a drive current to the light source so that the light source outputs a second optical signal. The control circuit decreases and increases the drive current according to an increase and decrease in the amplitude detected by the amplitude detecting circuit, respectively. In the case that this terminal device is used with another terminal device to construct a network, the dynamic range of the other terminal device can be reduced. Accordingly, the use of this terminal device can improve the extensibility of the network.

Abstract: In an optical switch controller, in order that residual vibration at movement control of a movable body such as a tilt mirror can be reduced and controlled with high accuracy, a processing unit outputs a driving signal for controlling the angle of the tilt mirror, the driving signal is D/A converted by a D/A converter and then is changed to a high-voltage signal by a high-voltage amplifier to be supplied to the tilt mirror, the electrostatic capacity of the tilt mirror changes corresponding to angle change of the tilt mirror, a mirror-angle detecting unit detects the electrostatic capacity and feeds back it as a correction value to a processing unit, and the processing unit corrects the driving signal using a correction value obtained when the angle of the tilt mirror is actually changed.

Abstract: Electric equipment is provided for mounting on vehicles and electrical machines having superior rust-prevention film, which makes it possible to prevent vehicles from generating red rust even if outer surface of magnetic core housing of the vehicle is damaged by bouncing a stone and the like during running, and also to provide manufacturing methods of the same. Any outer surface and surface exposed outward of the magnetic core housing is coated sequentially with a metal plated layer or an alkali zinc plated layer, chromate film or zinc phosphate film, and organic resin coating.