Disclosed herein are methods, devices, and system for beam forming and beam steering within ultra-wideband, wireless optical communication devices and systems. According to one embodiment, a free space optical (FSO) communication apparatus is disclosed. The FSO communication apparatus includes an array of optical sources wherein each optical source of the array of optical sources is individually controllable and each optical source configured to have a transient response time of less than 500 picoseconds (ps).

The present invention provides a wireless optical communication data transmission apparatus and method, including a transmit module and a receive module, where the transmit module includes a transmission gate, and the transmit module is configured to convert serial data into multipath control signals to control the transmission gate to output an electrical signal, convert the electrical signal into an optical signal, and transmit the optical signal to the receive module; and the receive module includes a peak value detector and a comparator group, and the receive module is configured to convert the received optical signal into the electrical signal and output the serial data after threshold determination by the comparator group, where the peak value detector provides a reference voltage to the comparator group according to the received electrical signal, and the comparator group performs voltage division according to the reference voltage to determine a threshold.

The present invention provides a wireless optical communication data transmission apparatus and method, including a transmit module and a receive module, where the transmit module includes a transmission gate, and the transmit module is configured to convert serial data into multipath control signals to control the transmission gate to output an electrical signal, convert the electrical signal into an optical signal, and transmit the optical signal to the receive module; and the receive module includes a peak value detector and a comparator group, and the receive module is configured to convert the received optical signal into the electrical signal and output the serial data after threshold determination by the comparator group, where the peak value detector provides a reference voltage to the comparator group according to the received electrical signal, and the comparator group performs voltage division according to the reference voltage to determine a threshold.

The present invention is to provide a wavelength cross-connect device that reduces device costs. A wavelength cross-connect device 10B performs relaying for changing, using WSSs, routes of optical signals transmitted from M routes 1h to Mh, in which K optical fibers 1f to Kf are grouped for each of the routes, on an input side to output the optical signals to respective optical fibers 1f to Kf of M routes 1h to Mh on an output side. Input ports of each of the optical couplers 25a to 26d are connected to output ports of each of first WSSs 21a to 22k. Further, the input ports of each of the optical couplers 25a to 26d are connected to the output ports of the first WSSs 21a to 22k and output ports of each of the optical couplers 25a to 26d are connected to input ports of second WSSs 23a to 24k such that the optical signals input from the optical fibers 1f to Kf in each of the routes 1h to Mh on the input side are capable of being output to the optical fibers 1f to Kf in each of the routes 1h to Mh on the output side, respectively.

Various example embodiments for supporting supervision in optical communication systems are presented. Various example embodiments for supporting supervision in optical communication systems may be configured to support supervision of an optical path including a remote optically pumped amplifier (ROPA) and, thus, supervision of the ROPA. Various example embodiments for supporting supervision of an optical path including a ROPA may be configured to support supervision of the optical path including the ROPA based on a pair of optical supervisory paths configured to extract a pair of optical supervisory signals from an optical path in a first direction and to insert the pair of optical supervisory signals into an optical path in a second direction. Various example embodiments for supporting supervision of an optical path including a ROPA may be configured to support supervision of the optical path including the ROPA based on a pair of optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) paths.

An EDFA may include an input photodiode configured to generate a control signal based on an input signal. The EDFA may include a blind stage configured to generate an amplified signal based on the control signal and the input signal. The EDFA may include a non-blind stage configured to generate an output signal based on the amplified signal within the blind stage, the control signal, and a feedback signal. The EDFA may include a filter configured to generate a filtered signal based on the output signal. The EDFA may include an output photodiode configured to generate the feedback signal based on the filtered signal. The EDFA may include an alarm device. A signal within the non-blind stage may be generated based on the feedback signal and the control signal. The alarm device may be configured to generate an alarm signal when the signal exceeds a threshold value.

A monitoring optical signal arrival adjustment device includes a first monitoring optical signal arrival adjustment unit which allows a first monitoring optical signal transmitted to a first position on a first optical transmission path to reach the first position or a second position on a second optical transmission path, and does not allow it to reach a third position on a third optical transmission path; a second monitoring optical signal arrival adjustment unit which allows a second monitoring optical signal transmitted to the second position to reach the first position or the second position, and does not allow it to reach the third position; and a third monitoring optical signal arrival adjustment unit which allows a third monitoring optical signal transmitted to the third position to reach the third position, and does not allow it to reach the first position or the second position.

A monitoring optical signal arrival adjustment device includes a first monitoring optical signal arrival adjustment unit which allows a first monitoring optical signal transmitted to a first position on a first optical transmission path to reach the first position or a second position on a second optical transmission path, and does not allow it to reach a third position on a third optical transmission path; a second monitoring optical signal arrival adjustment unit which allows a second monitoring optical signal transmitted to the second position to reach the first position or the second position, and does not allow it to reach the third position; and a third monitoring optical signal arrival adjustment unit which allows a third monitoring optical signal transmitted to the third position to reach the third position, and does not allow it to reach the first position or the second position.

An optical transmission system includes: a transmission unit configured to co-propagate a signal light in which data is modulated and an idler light having complex amplitude that is phase conjugate with the signal light via an optical transmission medium; at least one optical amplifier configured to perform a phase sensitive amplification operation through an action among the signal light, the idler light, and an excitation light in a nonlinear medium; and a reception unit configured to receive the signal light that has been amplified by the optical amplifier, coherently detect the signal light and the idler light individually, and conduct a diversity synthesis to demodulate the data.

An optical coupler, a communication method, and a communication system are provided. The communication system includes N transmitters, M receivers, and an optical coupler, where both N and M are positive integers greater than 1. Each of the N transmitters is configured to send one first optical signal to the optical coupler. The optical coupler is configured to couple N first optical signals sent by the N transmitters into one second optical signal and to broadcast the second optical signal to the M receivers. Each of the M receivers is configured to receive the second optical signal sent by the optical coupler and to demodulate the second optical signal.