Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of switching optical path, and apparatus thereof
- Patent Title (中): 光路切换方法及其装置
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Application No.: US13130108Application Date: 2009-11-24
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Publication No.: US08718467B2Publication Date: 2014-05-06
- Inventor: Takeshi Tsujimura , Kuniaki Tanaka , Koichi Yoshida , Kazunori Katayama , Yuji Azuma , Masatoshi Shimizu
- Applicant: Takeshi Tsujimura , Kuniaki Tanaka , Koichi Yoshida , Kazunori Katayama , Yuji Azuma , Masatoshi Shimizu
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
- Current Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Ohlandt Greeley Ruggiero & L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2008-308007 20081202; JP2009-090454 20090402; JP2009-090455 20090402
- International Application: PCT/JP2009/069806 WO 20091124
- International Announcement: WO2010/064561 WO 20100610
- Main IPC: H04B10/08
- IPC: H04B10/08

Abstract:
Terminals of upstream and downstream sides of an in-service line and a detour line are connected by optical couplers. An optical oscilloscope is connected to one optical coupler, and a chirped pulse light source is connected to the other optical coupler to thereby form dualized lines. The detour line includes an optical line length adjuster for compensating for the phase difference of optical transmission signals that occurs because of the optical line length difference with the in-service line. Pulse light in which an optical frequency is chirped is transmitted from the chirped pulse light source. The pulse light is branched by the second optical coupler, passes through the in-service line and the detour line, is multiplexed again by the first optical coupler, and is measured by the optical oscilloscope. While matching an arrival time of the pulse light, the optical line length is adjusted by the optical line length adjuster so as to minimize the size of upper and lower limits of an interference waveform generated in an upper part of the pulse light waveform or so as to make a frequency of an interference waveform become zero.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110236015A1 METHOD OF SWITCHING OPTICAL PATH, AND APPARATUS THEREOF Public/Granted day:2011-09-29
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