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US 2017/0250775 A1Published application
Optical multiplexing device and optical multiplexing network system
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsTomoyuki Kato, Shigeki Watanabe
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Abstract
An optical multiplexing device includes: a control light generator that generates control lights each being a continuous wave light and a subcarrier signal based on an insertion signal having respective optical frequencies, polarized states of the control lights being perpendicular to each other; and at least one nonlinear optical medium that modulates a carrier light based on the control lights.
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An optical multiplexing device comprising:
- a control light generator that generates control lights each being a continuous wave light and a subcarrier signal based on an insertion signal having respective optical frequencies, polarized states of the control lights being perpendicular to each other;
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- at least one nonlinear optical medium that modulates a carrier light based on the control lights.
An optical multiplexing network system comprising:
- an optical transmission line;
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- a plurality of optical multiplexing devices arranged on the optical transmission line,
- the optical multiplexing devices each includes:
- a control light generator that generates a continuous wave light and control lights each being a continuous wave light and a subcarrier signal based on an insertion signal having respective optical frequencies, polarized states of the control lights being perpendicular to each other, and
- at least one nonlinear optical medium that modulates a carrier light based on the control lights.
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