CA2055274A1 - Optical communication system with a fiber-optic amplifier - Google Patents

Optical communication system with a fiber-optic amplifier

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CA2055274A1
CA2055274A1 CA2055274A CA2055274A CA2055274A1 CA 2055274 A1 CA2055274 A1 CA 2055274A1 CA 2055274 A CA2055274 A CA 2055274A CA 2055274 A CA2055274 A CA 2055274A CA 2055274 A1 CA2055274 A1 CA 2055274A1
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fiber
pump light
signal
communication system
optical
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Rolf Heidemann
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Alcatel Lucent NV
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04B—TRANSMISSION
    • H04B10/00—Transmission systems employing electromagnetic waves other than radio-waves, e.g. infrared, visible or ultraviolet light, or employing corpuscular radiation, e.g. quantum communication
    • H04B10/29—Repeaters
    • H04B10/291—Repeaters in which processing or amplification is carried out without conversion of the main signal from optical form
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04B—TRANSMISSION
    • H04B10/00—Transmission systems employing electromagnetic waves other than radio-waves, e.g. infrared, visible or ultraviolet light, or employing corpuscular radiation, e.g. quantum communication
    • H04B10/29—Repeaters
    • H04B10/291—Repeaters in which processing or amplification is carried out without conversion of the main signal from optical form
    • H04B10/2912—Repeaters in which processing or amplification is carried out without conversion of the main signal from optical form characterised by the medium used for amplification or processing

Abstract

In an optical communication system with a fiber-optic amplifier (10) which includes a wavelength-selective fiber-optic coupler (12) for coupling pump light into the amplifying length of fiber (11), according to the invention, an additional optical signal, e.g., a service-channel signal, is transmitted from the location of the fiber-optic amplifier (10) in one direction or the other by being used to modulate the pump light. Since the pump light is not completely absorbed in the amplifying length of fiber (11), a sufficient portion is transferred from the length of fiber (11) into the optical waveguide (15) of the optical communication system and passes down the optical waveguide to the end point (A) of the communica-tion system. There,it is coupled out and passed to an optical receiver (17) from whose output the transmitted additional signal is recovered by demodulation. To pre-vent the modulation of the pump light from modulating the amplification brought about by the amplifying length of fiber (11), the additional signal is modulated onto a carrier wave of sufficiently high frequency, and the re-sulting signal is used to modulate the pump light.
CA002055274A 1990-11-15 1991-11-13 Optical communication system with a fiber-optic amplifier Expired - Fee Related CA2055274C (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

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DE4036327A DE4036327A1 (en) 1990-11-15 1990-11-15 OPTICAL MESSAGE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM WITH A FIBER OPTICAL AMPLIFIER
DEP4036327.9 1990-11-15

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CA2055274A1 true CA2055274A1 (en) 1992-05-16
CA2055274C CA2055274C (en) 1998-01-27

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US (1) US5285306A (en)
EP (1) EP0485813B1 (en)
JP (1) JPH04273624A (en)
AT (1) ATE139877T1 (en)
AU (1) AU647200B2 (en)
CA (1) CA2055274C (en)
DE (1) DE4036327A1 (en)
ES (1) ES2091272T3 (en)

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ATE139877T1 (en) 1996-07-15
DE4036327A1 (en) 1992-05-21
US5285306A (en) 1994-02-08
EP0485813A3 (en) 1992-09-23
EP0485813B1 (en) 1996-06-26
ES2091272T3 (en) 1996-11-01
EP0485813A2 (en) 1992-05-20
CA2055274C (en) 1998-01-27
JPH04273624A (en) 1992-09-29
AU8706891A (en) 1992-05-21
AU647200B2 (en) 1994-03-17

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