Optical signal processing apparatus, transmission apparatus, and optical signal processing method
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorShigeki WATANABE
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Abstract
An optical signal processing apparatus includes: an optical frequency comb generation unit configured to generate an optical frequency comb; an extraction unit configured to extract a plurality of optical components having a certain frequency interval between the optical components from the optical frequency comb; and an optical carrier generation unit configured to multiplex the plurality of optical components with reference light to thereby generate an optical carrier having a center frequency away from the center frequency of the reference light by an integer multiple of the frequency interval.
Claims19
An optical signal processing apparatus, comprising:
- an optical frequency comb generation unit configured to generate an optical frequency comb;
- an extraction unit configured to extract a plurality of optical components having a certain frequency interval between the optical components from the optical frequency comb;
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- an optical carrier generation unit configured to multiplex the plurality of optical components with reference light to thereby generate an optical carrier having a center frequency away from the center frequency of the reference light by an integer multiple of the frequency interval.
A transmission apparatus, comprising:
- an optical signal processing apparatus includes:
- an optical frequency comb generation unit configured to generate an optical frequency comb,
- an extraction unit configured to extract a plurality of optical components having a certain frequency interval between the optical components from the optical frequency comb, and
- an optical carrier generation unit configured to multiplex the plurality of optical components with reference light to thereby generate an optical carrier having a center frequency away from the center frequency of the reference light by an integer multiple of the frequency interval;
- a plurality of modulators configured to respectively modulate a plurality of optical carriers respectively generated by the plurality of optical signal processing apparatuses with a plurality of data signals to generate a plurality of optical signals;
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- a multiplexer configured to multiplex the plurality of optical signals.
An optical signal processing method, comprising:
- generating an optical frequency comb;
- extracting a plurality of optical components having a certain frequency interval between the optical components from the optical frequency comb;
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- multiplexing the plurality of optical components with reference light to thereby generate an optical carrier having a center frequency away from the center frequency of the reference light by an integer multiple of the frequency interval.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.