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A channel monitoring apparatus in a WDM system comprises: a plurality of tap couplers each for tapping a multiplexed optical signal at a predetermined percent at each monitoring point; an optical switch for selecting one of the monitoring points and optically switching an optical signal tapped by a relevant one of the tap couplers; an AWG module for dividing the optical signal switched by the switch by channels of the WDM system; a plurality of optical detectors for converting signals received from the AWG module into electric signals; a plurality of trans-impedance circuits for converting the electric signals converted by the detectors into voltage values proportional to current values of the signals; a channel multiplexer for selecting one of signals converted by the trans-impedance circuits; a fourth amplifier for amplifying the signal selected by the channel multiplexer; an analog/digital converter for converting the signal amplified by the fourth amplifier into a digital signal before applying it to a microprocessor; and a microprocessor for checking existence/non-existence of each channel and computing gains of the amplifiers with respect to each channel.

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