IP Library Granted Patent US 11,909,515
Granted Patent B2
US 11,909,515 · App. 17/867,057 · Granted Feb 20, 2024

Optical transmission system and receiving device

Inventors: Tomoaki Watanabe (Kawasaki, JP); Atsushi Kiyama (Kawasaki, JP); Makoto Hasegawa (Sapporo, JP); Yoshito Kachita (Kawasaki, JP)
Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
H04J14/0212G02B6/12007G02B6/293H04J14/0217
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Patent No.
US 11,909,515
App. No.
17/867,057
Granted
Feb 20, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

An optical transmission system includes a transmitting node that transmits wavelength light of an operational path to an optical waveguide, and a receiving node that receives the wavelength light from the optical waveguide. The transmitting node includes a light source that generates spontaneously emitted light and a wavelength selector that generates and outputs dummy wavelength light from the spontaneously emitted light generated by the light source. The receiving node includes an extractor that extracts spectral data of the dummy wavelength light passed in the optical waveguide. The optical transmission system further includes an obtainer that obtains a band state of the operational path from the spectral data of the dummy wavelength light extracted by the extractor.

Claims (20)

1. An optical transmission system, including:

a transmitting node that transmits wavelength light of an operational path to an optical waveguide; and

a receiving node that receives the wavelength light from the optical waveguide, wherein

the transmitting node includes:

a light source that generates spontaneously emitted light; and

a wavelength selector that generates and outputs dummy wavelength light from the spontaneously emitted light generated by the light source,

the receiving node includes an extractor that extracts spectral data of the dummy wavelength light passed in the optical waveguide, and

the optical transmission system further comprises:

an obtainer that obtains a band state of the operational path from the spectral data of the dummy wavelength light extracted by the extractor.

2. The optical transmission system according to claim 1 , wherein the receiving node includes the obtainer.

3. The optical transmission system according to claim 1 , further including:

a control device that monitors the transmitting node and the receiving node, wherein the control device includes the obtainer.

4. The optical transmission system according to claim 1 , wherein the extractor is an optical channel monitor that extracts the spectral data of the dummy wavelength light by utilizing optical coherent interference.

5. The optical transmission system according to claim 4 , wherein the obtainer obtains the band state that is a band width at a value down, by a predetermined value, from a peak value of the spectral data of the dummy wavelength light.

6. The optical transmission system according to claim 1 , wherein the transmitting node outputs the dummy wavelength light in the wavelength light of the operational path in a state where no transponder has been connected to the transmitting node.

7. The optical transmission system according to claim 1 , wherein the transmitting node outputs the dummy wavelength light having a wavelength different from that of wavelength light used by a transponder, in a state where the transponder has been connected to the transmitting node, the dummy wavelength light being in the wavelength light of the operational path.

8. The optical transmission system according to claim 1 , wherein the wavelength selector generates, from the spontaneously emitted light, the dummy wavelength light having a second slot width narrower than a first slot width of the wavelength light.

9. A receiving device that receives wavelength light of an operation path via an optical waveguide from a transmitting node, the receiving device comprising:

an extractor that extracts spectral data of dummy wavelength light generated from spontaneously emitted light at the transmitting node, from the dummy wavelength light passed through the optical waveguide; and

an obtainer that obtains a band state of the operational path from the spectral data of the dummy wavelength light extracted by the extractor.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 13, 2025
From: FUJITSU LIMITED
To: 1FINITY INC.
Reel/Frame 072432/0884 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 18, 2022
From: WATANABE, TOMOAKI; KIYAMA, ATSUSHI; HASEGAWA, MAKOTO; KACHITA, YOSHITO
To: FUJITSU LIMITED
Reel/Frame 060538/0092 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2022-072533 · Apr 26, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
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