Optical communication system

Details Optical communication system Optical communication system

1996-09-04

1999-08-03

Bacares, Rafael

Optical: systems and elements

Deflection using a moving element

Using a periodically moving element

359119, 370222, H04B 1008

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059332581

ABSTRACT:
A discontinuous ring is formed by separate bidirectional optical communication links, with possibly different transmission speeds, synchronous or asynchronous transmission, and ratios of working to protection channels, each linking a pair of terminals in different nodes of a communication system. To protect protection-switched traffic on a communication link from a link failure, it is routed around the ring via the protection channel of the other communication links. To this end, an optical switch is provided between the protection channel of each link and the associated terminals in each node, and is controlled differently in nodes adjacent the link failure and in nodes not adjacent the link failure to route the protection-switched traffic accordingly. Rapid protection switching is facilitated by controlling the optical switches using wavelength detectors directionally coupled to the protection channel at each node.

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