An optronic transceiver module capable of implementing an optical bidirectional communication of the point to point type via at least one main optical fibre is disclosed. The optronic transceiver module includes a first optical module for supervising an uplink signal received via the main optical fibre delivering a first supervision result, a first optical module for switching the bidirectional communication via the main optical fibre to a bidirectional communication via a backup optical fibre, and vice versa, the first optical switching module being controlled by the first optical supervision module depending on the first supervision result delivered.

A signal processing device included in an optical reception device configured to receive a burst optical signal transmitted by one of a plurality of optical transmission devices, includes a symbol timing detecting unit configured to detect a symbol timing based on sample signals obtained by oversampling the burst optical signal converted into an electric signal with a sampling rate higher than a symbol rate, an adaptive equalization filter unit configured to perform an equalization process on the sample signals, and a timing matching unit configured to match timing such that, when the adaptive equalization filter unit takes in the sample signals, one of the taken-in sample signals corresponding to the symbol timing is given to a tap of which a tap coefficient has a maximum value among taps included in the adaptive equalization filter unit.

An optical communication system includes an optical line terminal and a plurality of optical network unit connected by optical transfer paths. The optical line terminal includes a light transmitting/receiving unit and a control unit. The light transmitting/receiving unit transmits/receives an optical signal to/from the plurality of optical network units via the optical transfer paths. The control unit performs control so as to change a launch power of an optical signal that is transmitted from the light transmitting/receiving unit, such that, when it is recognized, regarding at least one optical network unit, that a monitoring value that changes according to a receive signal quality of an optical signal transmitted from the light transmitting/receiving unit has changed to a value indicating deterioration, a receive power of an optical signal in each of the plurality of optical network units is lower than or equal to an upper limit value and a receive power of an optical signal in the optical network unit in which the monitoring value has changed to a value indicating deterioration is higher than or equal to a lower limit value.

An optical communication system includes an optical line terminal and a plurality of optical network unit connected by optical transfer paths. The optical line terminal includes a light transmitting/receiving unit and a control unit. The light transmitting/receiving unit transmits/receives an optical signal to/from the plurality of optical network units via the optical transfer paths. The control unit performs control so as to change a launch power of an optical signal that is transmitted from the light transmitting/receiving unit, such that, when it is recognized, regarding at least one optical network unit, that a monitoring value that changes according to a receive signal quality of an optical signal transmitted from the light transmitting/receiving unit has changed to a value indicating deterioration, a receive power of an optical signal in each of the plurality of optical network units is lower than or equal to an upper limit value and a receive power of an optical signal in the optical network unit in which the monitoring value has changed to a value indicating deterioration is higher than or equal to a lower limit value.

Provided is a communication apparatus for making connection to a communication network, including: an optical network unit; and an external power supply input/output terminal, the communication apparatus being configured such that electrical power is fed to the optical network unit from an external terminal that is connected to the external power supply input/output terminal and functions as an auxiliary power supply.

A method for performing ONU Management and Control Interface (OMCI) synchronization includes receiving an OMCI message containing a OLT-G entity identifying OLT's vendor identification (ID) and version. The method also includes determining if an OLT vendor identification (ID) matches with a current vendor ID and if an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) version is compatible with current OMCI handlers. When the OLT vendor ID fails to match with the current vendor ID, automatically performing a OMCI handler switching process. The OMCI handler switching process includes setting a current OLT vendor as a new OLT vendor ID, deleting a OMCI configuration previously stored in the flash memory after setting the new OLT vendor ID, and rebooting the ONT to allow the ONT to initialize a OMCI configuration using a new OMCI profile.

An optical reception device including: a local light transmission unit configured to generate a plurality of local lights having different wavelengths, select a local light having a wavelength that is close to the wavelength of a received optical signal from among the plurality of generated local lights having different wavelengths, and transmit the selected local light to a coherent receiver; a demultiplexing unit configured to demultiplex a received optical signal and transmit the demultiplexed optical signal to the coherent receiver via a first path; and a wavelength detection unit configured to input the optical signal demultiplexed by the demultiplexing unit via a second path, split the input optical signal into different paths according to wavelengths by using a wavelength multiplexer/demultiplexer, and output, to the local light transmission unit, a control signal for causing the local light transmission unit to output a local light having a frequency that corresponds to a path in which the optical signal is included.

In an embodiment, a data collection method includes: collecting, by a data collection device, performance indicator data of a target device based on a collection periodicity; detecting change amplitude of the collected performance indicator data that is in a change detection window, where the change detection window includes multiple collection periodicities; and when it is detected that change amplitude of the performance indicator data that is in the change detection window is greater than or equal to a change detection threshold, sending the performance indicator data that is in the change detection window to a data analysis device.

An optical network communication system utilizes a coherent passive optical network (PON). The system includes an optical line terminal (OLT) having a downstream transmitter and an upstream receiver system configured for time-wavelength division coherent detection. The system further includes a splitter in operable communication with the OLT, and a plurality of optical network units (ONUs) in operable communication with the splitter. Each of the plurality of ONUs is configured to (i) receive downstream coherent burst signals from the OLT, and (ii) transmit at least one upstream burst signal to the OLT. The upstream receiver system further includes a power control module and a local oscillator (LO) configured to generate an optical LO signal The power control module is configured to adaptively control, in real-time, a power level of the optical LO signal.

A wavelength multiplexing communication system includes a master station apparatus and a plurality of slave station apparatuses. The master station apparatus includes a wavelength multiplexing communication unit. The wavelength multiplexing communication unit performs wavelength multiplexing communication with the plurality of slave station apparatuses by using optical signals having the number of wavelengths equal to or less than the number of the plurality of slave station apparatuses. The slave station apparatus includes an optical communication unit. When the main signal communication is performed in the host slave station apparatus, the optical communication unit communicates with the master station apparatus by an optical signal having the same wavelength as a wavelength used by another slave station apparatus in which a main signal notification is not performed.