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US 11,764,892 B2Granted
Optical transceiver and method for automatically setting wavelength thereof
AssigneeSOLiD, INC.
InventorsBum Soo Park, Tae Hyeong Kim, Chi Young Park, Seung Hee Lee, Eun Sung Lee
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Abstract
Provided is an optical transceiver including: a receiver configured to receive an optical transmission signal including wavelength information from another optical transceiver through a multiplexer/demultiplexer connected to the receiver; and a controller configured to identify a reception wavelength for communication with the other optical transceiver and to determine a wavelength corresponding to the reception wavelength as a transmission wavelength for communication with the other optical transceiver, based on the wavelength information included in the optical transmission signal.
Claims8
An optical transceiver comprising:
- a receiver configured to receive an optical transmission signal including wavelength information about a wavelength of the optical transmission signal from another optical transceiver through a multiplexer/demultiplexer connected to the receiver;
- a controller configured to identify a reception wavelength for communication with the other optical transceiver and to determine a transmission wavelength for communication with the other optical transceiver, based on the wavelength information included in the optical transmission signal,
- wherein the optical transmission signal is one of a plurality of optical transmission signals which are generated for the optical transceiver, the plurality of optical transmission signals have different wavelengths and are sequentially output from the other optical transceiver, and the optical transmission signal is selected and delivered to the optical transceiver among the plurality of optical transmission signals by the multiplexer/demultiplexer,
- wherein the controller generates reception wavelength information and transmission wavelength information by obtaining a pre-matching reception wavelength and transmission wavelength stored in a lookup table, and the lookup table is updated according to an use environment of the optical transceiver and the other optical transceiver;
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- a transmitter configured to generate an optical response signal including the reception wavelength information and the transmission wavelength information by superimposing the reception wavelength information and the transmission wavelength information with an optical signal having the transmission wavelength.
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An optical communication system comprising:
- a first optical transceiver configured to sequentially generate a plurality of optical transmission signals of different wavelengths, each optical transmission signal including transmission wavelength information about a wavelength of the optical transmission signal, and to output the plurality of optical transmission signals to a first multiplexer/demultiplexer connected to the first optical transceiver;
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- a second optical transceiver configured to receive one of the plurality of optical transmission signals through a second multiplexer/demultiplexer connected to the first multiplexer/demultiplexer, to identify a reception wavelength for communication with the first optical transceiver based on wavelength information included in the one of the optical transmission signals, to determine a transmission wavelength for communication with the first optical transceiver based on the wavelength information included in the one of the optical transmission signals, to generate reception wavelength information and transmission wavelength information by obtaining a pre-matching reception wavelength and transmission wavelength stored in a lookup table, wherein the lookup table is updated according to an use environment of the first optical transceiver and the second optical transceiver, and to generate an optical response signal including the reception wavelength information and the transmission wavelength information by superimposing the reception wavelength information and the transmission wavelength information with an optical signal having the transmission wavelength,
- wherein the plurality of optical transmission signals are generated for the second optical transceiver.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.