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7606487 Distortion measurement in optical communication systems  
The distortion component of an optical signal received from an optical transmission system, such as an all-optical system, subject to noise and amplitude distortion components, can be evaluated by...
7561797 Optical signal transmitter with active optical e-field degradation  
A method and system for controlling optical signal to noise ratio (OSNR) of an optical signal at a receiver end of an optical link. A multi-bit sample stream is generated using a compensation...
7532818 Apparatus and method for measuring coherence sampling quality-factor  
An apparatus and method for measuring a coherence sampling quality-factor (Q-factor) are provided, which are used to monitor quality of an optical signal in an optical network in real time. The...
7505685 Wavelength-division multiplex communication system and apparatus  
In the WDM communication system, in the absence of data to be transmitted on an optical channel, a pilot signal transmitting means transmits the channel-unique pilot signal data on the channel. A...
7477847 Optical and electrical channel feedback in optical transceiver module  
Optical transceivers have loopback and pass-through paths for diagnosing transceiver components and optical networks connected to the optical transceiver or for routing data out of the transceiver...
7460792 Receiving circuit and electronic apparatus for optical communication  
In an optical communication-use receiving circuit of the present invention, the pulse width of the received pulse which is a binary signal corresponding to the signal optical pulse is specified by...
7460784 Method for preemphasising an optical multiplex signal  
The invention relates to a method for easily and rapidly preemphasizing an optical multiplex signal transmitted by an emitter to a receiver consisting wherein signal-to-noise ratios are equalized...
7457542 Optical access network system  
An optical access network system having a function of correcting upstream signal waveform distortions occurring in the PON section, wherein a central office side apparatus comprises a main...
7457032 Arrangement, system, and method for accurate power measurements using an optical performance monitor (OPM)  
An arrangement has a WDT (Wavelength-Dependent Tap) coupled in an OCS (Optical Communication System) and an OPM (Optical Performance Monitoring) function coupled to the WDT. The WDT is adapted to...
7454138 Method for optimizing path of optical network, and optical transmission node for realizing path optimization  
Span information (information about conditions of a path between a node of interest and another, adjacent node connected thereto) retained in respective nodes is cumulatively transmitted from a...
7440170 Method and apparatus for monitoring optical signal-to-noise ratio  
Optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) monitoring methods and apparatus are described. A tunable optical filter filters an optical channel containing an optical signal and noise. The total signal and...
7437083 Wavelength converter  
A wavelength converter for binary optical signals includes an interferometer structure ( 110 ) for generating an output signal by modulating a received local signal (LS) according to the modulation...
7426347 Shared optical performance monitoring  
An apparatus for shared optical performance monitoring (OPM) is provided. A wavelength sensitive device receives light at an input port and routes it wavelength selectively to a set of output...
7424221 Optical network terminal with illegal transmission detection circuitry  
An optical network terminal, which includes an optical transmitter, monitors the status of the optical transmitter, such as the output or the power consumption of the optical transmitter, to...
7418212 Electrical detection of optical symbols  
A system and method for detecting digital symbols carried in a received optical signal. The system comprises a functional element operative to receive a stream of samples of an electrical signal...
7415213 Optical receiver having transient compensation  
An optical receiver having compensation for signal level transients. The receiver includes an OE converter, a transient threshold compensator, a threshold combiner and a CDR system. The OE...
7406268 Optical receiver circuit  
An optical receiver circuit is constructed to be immune to interference from external interference signals. The optical receiver circuit includes a differential amplifier having an optical...
7400829 Transmission apparatus and path selection method of a transmission apparatus  
A transmission apparatus that receives an optical signal by selecting any one of a plurality of provided optical signal transmission paths through protection control is configured to include a...
7391970 Apparatus and method for monitoring optical signal-to-noise ratio  
An apparatus and a method for monitoring optical signal-to-noise ratio are provided. It can be applied in dense wavelength-division multiplexed networks to monitor the transmission quality of each...
7376359 Digital regulated light receive module and regulation method  
The invention discloses a digital adjusting method for an optical receiver module, and the method implements real-time monitor of parameters, on-line adjustment and non-linear compensation. The...
7369777 Method and apparatus for automatically adjusting the optical power directed to a dispersion compensating element  
A dispersion compensator is provided that includes an input port 102 for receiving a WDM optical signal and a dispersion compensating element 110 coupled to the input port for substantially...
7340187 Optical signal monitoring method and apparatus  
In an optical signal monitoring method in wavelength multiplexing and an optical network, an area corresponding to a characteristic pattern of an eye pattern of an optical signal to be monitored,...
7312918 Optical transmission system having function of correcting noise light due to Raman amplification  
An optical transmission system wherein a main signal light is amplified by Raman amplification, and noise light (ASS light) produced by the Raman amplification can be corrected with a simple...
7286755 Method and apparatus for testing an optical component  
The present invention relates to a system for testing the connection paths of a switch fabric by using a spontaneously emitted signal as a test signal. The system includes at least one first module...
7283744 Performance monitoring based on optical autocorrelation  
An optical performance monitor (OPM) adapted to (i) sample an autocorrelation function corresponding to an optical signal transmitted in an optical network and (ii) based on the sampling,...
7274870 Apparatus and method for simultaneous channel and optical signal-to-noise ratio monitoring  
An apparatus and method for simultaneous channel and optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) monitoring is adapted to function in multi-channel wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) optical...
7266303 Handling information in a noisy environment  
A method and system for handling information in a noisy environment in the form of at least one information carrying mode is disclosed. A plurality of encoded modes are generated by linear...
7266297 Optical cross-connect  
A bit-rate-transparent electrical space-division switching matrix is employed in an optical cross-connect and the input/output stage is constructed from simple, broadband optical receivers and...
7263287 Method and apparatus for assessing performance of optical systems  
An apparatus for accelerating assessment of an optical transmission system using Bit Error Rate (BER) tests calculates Q-factors for at least two different extinction ratios from measured test BER...
7263286 Fast testing system for optical transceiver and testing method thereof  
The present invention provides a fast testing system and method for optical transceiver, which integrates multiple testing machines in the testing environment for the optical transceiver, so that...
7257324 Apparatus for monitoring optical signal-to-noise ratio  
Disclosed is an apparatus for monitoring an optical signal-to-noise ratio in a WDM optical network. The apparatus includes an orthogonal polarization component module for receiving an optical...
7254345 Receiver and receiving method capable of detecting an eye aperture size formed by reception data signals  
In a receiver operable in response to a data signal, an eye aperture size is detected along a time axis by an eye aperture detection circuit and is controlled by a control circuit so that it...
7248804 Optical transmission device using a wide input dynamic range optical amplifier  
Conventionally, an adjustment of an optical power level of an input Pin of an optical amplifier module is made with an optical variable attenuator. An optical coupler for measuring the optical...
7248799 Method and an improved device for controlling the power delivered at the output of a node of an optical network that switches bands of wavelengths  
A device (D) is dedicated to controlling the power of optical signals in a transparent switching node of an optical communication network that switches bands of wavelengths. The device includes,...
7239807 Variable clamp equalization method and apparatus  
The present invention relates to a variable clamp equalization method and apparatus, the method includes measuring optical signal to noise ratio (OSNR) values for each wavelength, computing a raw...
7218850 Apparatus and method for monitoring signal-to-noise ratio in optical transmission systems  
A high-sensitivity signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) determining apparatus measures the in-band SNR of an optical data signal by detecting and demodulating the optical signal and analyzing a narrow...
7215883 Methods for determining the performance, status, and advanced failure of optical communication channels  
Methods of determining the performance and the advanced failure of an optical communication channel. Performance of an optical communication channel may be determined by receiving light signals,...
7200328 Method and system for determining origin of optical signal quality degradation  
A monitoring system includes first and second evaluation sections for obtaining an averaged Q-factor parameter and a waveform distortion parameter from an optical signal amplitude histogram...
7177541 OSNR monitoring method and apparatus for the optical networks  
It is disclosed that a method and apparatus that automatically monitors each channel's optical signal-to-noise ration (OSNR) using optical filter and polarization extinction method in wavelength...
7174098 Apparatus and method for monitoring optical signal  
This invention provides a technique for realizing low-cost optical signal waveform monitoring with improved realtimeness to be applied to signal quality monitoring in an actual optical transmission...
7149428 OSNR monitoring method and apparatus using tunable optical bandpass filter and polarization nulling method  
The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for monitoring optical signal to noise ratio (OSNR) in a wavelength division multiplexing optical transmission system. The present invention...
7149424 Method and device for evaluating and improving the quality of transmission of a telecommunications signal through an optical fiber  
A system and method for improving the transmission quality of a WDM optical communications system begins by determining the bit-error rate for an optical channel before forward error correction is...
7146107 Method and apparatus for adjusting filter device  
A tunable dispersion compensator whose passband center wavelength changes when the amount of dispersion compensation is changed is suitably adjusted. The relationship between temperature for...
7146099 Method and apparatus for optical signal and noise analysis using pulse amplitude histogram  
In a method of analyzing an optical communications signal, a threshold is established under control of a processor, and a decision circuit compares the amplitude of the signal to the threshold. A...
7142782 Noise light elimination method, noise light elimination apparatus and optical transmission system, using stimulated brillouin scattering  
The invention is aimed at providing a simple noise light elimination technique capable of eliminating noise light components contained in a signal light, together with wavelength components same as...
7139480 System and method for power management in an optical network  
A method and system for multi-level power management in an optical network is provided. They include three levels of power management. The first level of power management dynamically changes...
7133611 Main signal controlling apparatus and method in a WDM optical communications system  
If a repeater supervisory control (SV), a pre-emphasis automatic adjustment (PE), a receiving side threshold value automatic adjustment (Vth), a transmitting side dispersion compensation value...
7116454 Method for determining signal quality in optical transmission systems  
A method for determining signal quality in optical transmission systems, wherein the effective signal-to-noise ratio is determined by measuring amplitude histograms of a signal and by calculating...
7103283 Transmission characteristic compensation control system  
A transmission characteristic compensation system enables to reduce the generation of transmission deterioration by estimating an initially selected control direction, and also to compensate in...
7103276 Optical band scanning monitor system and method  
A scanning optical monitoring system and method are appropriate for high speed scanning of a WDM signal band. The system and method are able to identify dropped channels or, more generally,...
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