US Patent No: 6,563,978

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Optical transmission system and optical coupler/branching filter

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Abstract

The objective is an optical transmission unit capable of coupling and branching signal lights of individual wavelengths at a data rate of 10 Gbits/s. In order to achieve the objective, DCFs are provided and proper values of dispersion compensation are given, so that different characteristics depending on the respective wavelengths to be coupled, split and pass through without being split are obtained. The signal lights are amplified by a plurality of low-excitation optical amplifiers to regain their light levels which are weakened due to using an optical coupler, branching filter and DCF together, thereby enabling a long-distance transmission.

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HITACHI, LTD.TOKYO32155

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Kosaka, Junya Fujisawa, JP 44 427
Matsuoka, Tadashi Takasaki, JP 16 115
Nakano, Tetsushi Fujisawa, JP 5 24

Cited Art

Patent Info (Count) # Cites Year
 
SYCAMORE NETWORKS, INC. (1)
6,445,850 Method and apparatus for per-band compensation with gap-free band structure for high speed DWDM transmission 17 2001

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FUJITSU LIMITED (2)
7,254,333 Low-cost WDM terminal device accommodating plurality of client signal 6 2001
7,616,893 Wavelength division multiplexing optical repeating transmission method and repeating apparatus 0 2004
 
AVANEX CORPORATION (1)
7,218,857 Method, apparatus and system for a re-configurable optical add-drop multiplexer 1 2003
 
LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. (1)
6,748,150 Apparatus and method for managing dispersion within an optical add/drop module 1 2003

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