Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical amplifier, optical transmission system, and optical cable failure part measurement method
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Application No.: US16973927Application Date: 2019-06-06
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Publication No.: US11329445B2Publication Date: 2022-05-10
- Inventor: Takashi Kotanigawa , Kohei Saito , Tsutomu Kubo
- Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
- Current Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Priority: JPJP2018-115136 20180618
- International Application: PCT/JP2019/022592 WO 20190606
- International Announcement: WO2019/244660 WO 20191226
- Main IPC: H04B10/07
- IPC: H04B10/07 ; H01S3/067 ; H04B10/071 ; H04B10/077 ; H04J14/02 ; H04B10/29

Abstract:
A fault location in an optical cable at a long distance is easily measured and detected with low-cost equipment in a configuration in which an isolator is disposed in the vicinity of an optical amplifier for improved optical transmission performance and for stabilization. An optical amplifier has a configuration in which multiplexing/demultiplexing units as first WDM filters and that multiplex/demultiplex main signal light and OTDR light and (measurement light) for submarine cable fault measurement transmitted to a submarine cable in opposite directions from a transmission device side and a reception device side, transmit the multiplexed/demultiplexed main signal light to a main path passing through an isolators and an EDF, and transmit the multiplexed/demultiplexed OTDR light to a bypass path bypassing the isolators and the EDF are included on both sides of a set of the isolators and the EDF of the submarine cable.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210257803A1 OPTICAL AMPLIFIER, OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND OPTICAL CABLE FAILURE PART MEASUREMENT METHOD Public/Granted day:2021-08-19
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