1997-01-22
1998-08-25
Bacares, Rafael
357179, 357195, 357341, H04B 1006
Patent
active
057988579
ABSTRACT:
Spontaneous emission occurring in association with direct optical amplification using an erbium-doped optical fiber is modulated with an auxiliary signal, such as a supervisory signal, for transmission of the auxiliary signal. In a first aspect of the invention, the output of an optical amplifier is passed through a variable optical band-pass filter whose transmission characteristic is varied in accordance with the auxiliary signal, to modulate the spontaneous emission component contained in the optical amplifier output. In a second aspect of the invention, the output of the optical amplifier is separated by an optical branching device into a main optical signal and part of the spontaneous emission. The separated spontaneous emission component is modulated by being passed through a variable optical band-pass filter whose transmission characteristic is varied in accordance with the auxiliary signal, and then, the modulated spontaneous emission component is wavelength-division multiplexed with the main optical signal.
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Itou Hiroyuki
Kawasaki Yumiko
Shima Michikazu
Takahashi Tsukasa
Tamura Yuji
Bacares Rafael
Fujitsu Limited
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