Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100150560 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING OPTICAL SIGNALS WITH ENHANCED REFLECTION SENSITIVITY IN WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK (WDM-PON) - Disclosed are an optical transmission apparatus and method in a wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network (WDM-PON). The optical transmission apparatus outputs an optical signal by applying a DC bias current and an RF signal to a laser diode at a threshold current level of the laser diode, thereby broadening an optical spectrum of the laser diode. Accordingly, an optical link becomes less vulnerable to reflection induced noise, which contributes to improve stability and reliability of the optical link. | 06-17-2010 |
20100150561 | OPTICAL RECEIVER, OPTICAL LINE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF RECOVERING RECEIVED SIGNALS - An optical receiver is provided which can be applied to a wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network (WDM PON) based on a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier employing a wavelength reuse scheme. The optical receiver includes a photo diode to convert an optical signal to an electrical signal; a pre-amplifier to linearly amplify the electrical signal and convert the amplified electrical signal to a voltage signal; a post-amplifier, which is equipped with a gain control function, to convert the voltage signal to a signal with a constant output level and to control a decision threshold of the converted signal; and an offset voltage generator to generate a predetermined offset voltage for the decision threshold control of the post-amplifier and to provide the offset voltage to the post-amplifier. Accordingly, it is possible to increase an extinction ratio of a downstream optical signal to a predetermined level in the WDM PON based on a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier employing a wavelength reuse scheme, and it is possible to reduce an optical power, which is received by the reflective semiconductor optical amplifier incorporated in a subscriber terminal, below a predetermined level. As a result, it is possible to improve transmission quality of the downstream and upstream optical signals. | 06-17-2010 |
20100150574 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING REFLECTIVE SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (RSOA) - A method and apparatus for controlling a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA) are provided. The RSOA control apparatus sets a threshold current at which a light source starts to oscillate to be constant regardless of a wavelength of seed light by controlling a driving temperature for driving a RSOA, and adjusts an optical characteristic which is differently output for each wavelength of seed light to be constant by controlling a driving current. | 06-17-2010 |
20100158522 | SEED LIGHT MODULE BASED ON SINGLE LONGITUDINAL MODE OSCILLATION LIGHT SOURCE - A seed light module based on a single longitudinal mode oscillation light source is provided. The seed light module includes a multi-wavelength signal generation light source unit generating a continuous wave (CW) of different wavelengths, a multiplexer wavelength-division multiplexing the light output from the light source unit, a polarization beam splitter splitting the light of multiple wavelength components output from the multiplexer according to specific polarization components, phase modulators phase-modulating signals of a first polarization component and a second polarization component split by the polarization beam splitter onto a sine wave having a frequency and amplitude, a radio frequency (RF) signal generator generating the sine wave, a RF signal distributor distributing the generated RF signal, amplifiers amplifying the distributed RF signals, and a polarization beam combiner combining the lights phase-modulated by the respective phase modulators and providing the combined light as a seed light output. | 06-24-2010 |
20100158526 | OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER SUITABLE FOR USE IN HYBRID, PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK - Provided is an apparatus for connecting a wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network (WDM-PON) to a time division multiplexing passive optical network (TDM-PON). In a hybrid, passive optical network which is a combination of the WDM-PON and the TDM-PON, the apparatus is formed at a subscriber side for matching the WDM-PPN and the TDM-PON. Accordingly, a passive remote mode can be implemented as a passive node not an active node. Therefore, the entire optical network can be efficiently operated. In addition, since the apparatus located on the subscriber side uses a wavelength-tunable light source, any dependency on the wavelength of a WDM-PON optical signal is removed. | 06-24-2010 |
20110044691 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING OPTICAL SIGNALS - Disclosed are an apparatus and method for detecting optical signals. The optical signal detection apparatus includes: a signal receiver to convert a received optical signal into an electrical signal; a threshold decision unit to establish a mathematical model based on the electrical signal and to decide an optimized threshold value based on the mathematical model; and a signal detector to detect the electrical signal based on the optimized threshold value. Hence, since threshold values optimized adaptively according to received signals are used, a bit error rate may be lowered and accordingly detection performance may be improved. | 02-24-2011 |
20120128360 | OPEN OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORK SYSTEM - The present invention relates to an open optical access network system in which one optical access network is open to enable a plurality of service providers and a plurality of subscribers to simultaneously use the optical access network, to thereby improve the efficiency of using the optical access network, wherein each subscriber can be provided with a plurality of different services from the plurality of service providers, thereby enabling the flexible selection of services and the flexible change in services, thus improving the efficiency of using an optical infrastructure. | 05-24-2012 |
20120144214 | OPTICAL NETWORK UNIT, POWER SOURCE EQUIPMENT AND POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM USING THE SAME - An optical network unit is provided that includes a communication detector configured to detect whether a communication is achieved between the ONU and at least one power source equipment (PSE), and a power controller configured to detect whether the PSE is powered and to control electrical power, which is provided from the PSE, based on at least one of the detection result about whether the communication is achieved between the ONU and the PSE and the detection result about the PSE is powered. | 06-07-2012 |
20120148191 | ANGLED PHYSICAL CONTACT RECEPTABLE STUB AND ANGLED PHYSICAL CONTACT TRANSMITTER OPTICAL SUB-ASSEMBLY HAVING THE SAME - An APC receptacle stub and an APC TOSA having the same are provided. The APC receptacle stub includes a first APC stub and a second APC stub. The first APC stub has an optical fiber inserted thereto and is provided with one end section polished in an APC shape. The second APC stub has an optical fiber inserted thereto and is provided with one end section polished in an APC shape and an opposite end section which is coupled to an opposite end section of the first APC stub through rotation adjustment in the same axial direction as an axial direction of the opposite end section of the first APC stub. The APC receptacle stub enables easy optical alignment and is applicable to a light source that is sensitive to reflection. | 06-14-2012 |
20120155876 | SEED LIGHT MODULE FOR WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING-PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - A seed light module for a WDM-PON system is provided. The seed light module includes a reflector configured to reflect a part of seed light that is generated from a light source generator, and an optical attenuator configured to attenuate the intensity of the reflected seed light and provide the attenuated seed light, which corresponds to a signal generated by attenuating the intensity of the reflected seed light, to the light source generator. | 06-21-2012 |
20120163822 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRIVING WAVELENGTH-INDEPENDENT LIGHT SOURCE - An apparatus for driving a wavelength-independent light source is provided. The apparatus includes a seed light signal generation unit configured to generate seed light signals with one or more wavelengths based on a wavelength identification signal, a wavelength light detection unit configured to detect the wavelength identification signal from the seed light signals, an extraction unit configured to extract wavelength information corresponding to the detected wavelength identification signal and extract a driving condition of a wavelength-independent light source corresponding to the extracted wavelength information, and a driving unit configured to drive the wavelength-independent light source according to the extracted driving condition. | 06-28-2012 |
20130163629 | USER-SELECTABLE LASER AND OPTICAL TRANSMITTER HAVING THE SAME - Provided are a user-selectable laser and an optical transmitter including the same. The user-selectable laser is an external cavity laser including a semiconductor laser diode for outputting an optical signal, and a wavelength selection filter. The user-selectable laser may allow a user to select a wavelength selection filter which is optically coupled with the semiconductor laser diode and selectively causes oscillation at the wavelength of an optical signal output from the semiconductor laser diode. | 06-27-2013 |
20140199074 | ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS-PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK COMPRISING OPTICAL NETWORK UNIT AND OPTICAL LINE TERMINAL - An orthogonal frequency division multiple access-passive optical network including a plurality of optical network units each configured to generate orthogonal frequency division multiplexed signals, which are allocated thereto, based on a central frequency for frequency division multiplexing that is allocated in advance, and to use the generated signals in upstream transmission. | 07-17-2014 |
20140219659 | METHOD OF ALLOCATING UPSTREAM BANDWIDTH RESOURCE AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING UPSTREAM DATA IN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS-OPEN OPTICAL SUBSCRIBER NETWORK - There are provided a method of allocating upstream bandwidth resources and a method of transmitting upstream data in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access-open optical subscriber network. The method of allocating an upstream bandwidth resource according to an embodiment of the invention includes receiving queue status information from each optical network unit (ONU), and allocating an upstream bandwidth by providing to each ONU a 2-D upstream bandwidth map on a subcarrier-time resource through a frame synchronized at constant cycles, based on the queue status information received from each ONU. | 08-07-2014 |
20140219661 | METHOD OF SELECTING WAVELENGTH OF OPTICAL NETWORK UNIT IN PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK - Provided is a method of selecting a wavelength of an optical network unit including selecting a pre-loaded default wavelength as an available wavelength candidate or the wavelength that has been changed when a preset wavelength changing condition is satisfied as the available wavelength candidate, acquiring frame synchronization for a downstream signal having the same wavelength as the selected available wavelength candidate, and transmitting a registration request message to an optical line terminal (OLT) from which the downstream signal has been transmitted when the frame synchronization is acquired, assigning the available wavelength candidate to an available wavelength used for communication with the OLT and registering the terminal in the OLT when a registration allowance message is received from the OLT. | 08-07-2014 |