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.
Claims17
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;
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- 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, 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.
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, and 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,
- wherein the plurality of optical transmission signals are generated for the second optical transceiver.
An optical transceiver comprising:
- a transmitter configured to sequentially transmit a plurality of optical transmission signals of different wavelengths to a multiplexer/demultiplexer connected to the optical transceiver;
- a receiver configured to receive an optical response signal including transmission wavelength information and reception wavelength information from another optical transceiver through the multiplexer/demultiplexer;
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- a controller configured to generate optical link information between the optical transceiver and the other optical transceiver based on the transmission wavelength information and the reception wavelength information,
- wherein the transmission wavelength information includes information on one of the different wavelengths which passes the multiplexer/demultiplexer, and
- the reception wavelength information includes information on a wavelength matched to the one of the different wavelengths of which an optical signal transmitted from the other optical transceiver.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.