A design method for a quasi-coarse wavelength division multiplexing optical network is provided. A spectral grid of an optical channel has a pre-set fixed bandwidth, and the pre-set fixed bandwidth is at least 200 GHz. A modulation format of the optical channel is adaptively selected according to actual rate requirements and physical channel conditions, thus selecting an optimal modulation format achieve a tradeoff between the total cost of IP router ports and regenerators and the served number of traffic demand. The above technical solution effectively resolves the technical problems in the prior art of high construction costs and low spectral efficiency of elastic optical networks.

An optical network is provided that includes at least one strand of a plurality of strands of optical fiber optically connected to a first fiber distribution hub and an access terminal. The at least one strand optically is also connected to a second fiber distribution hub and the access terminal. The at least one strand thus provides a full duplex optical path in a first direction from the first fiber distribution hub to the access terminal and in a second direction from the second fiber distribution hub to the access terminal.

An electromagnetic signal transport and distribution system simultaneously transports over one single mode fiber various programming specifically requested by multiple users in multiple locations while simultaneously offering bidirectional communications with a public network.

Aspects described herein include an optical apparatus comprising a multiple-stage arrangement of two-mode Bragg gratings comprising: at least a first Bragg grating of a first stage. The first Bragg grating is configured to transmit a first two wavelengths and to reflect a second two wavelengths of a received optical signal. The optical apparatus further comprises a second Bragg grating of a second stage. The second Bragg grating is configured to transmit one of the first two wavelengths and to reflect an other of the first two wavelengths. The optical apparatus further comprises a third Bragg grating of the second stage. The third Bragg grating is configured to transmit one of the second two wavelengths and to reflect an other of the second two wavelengths.

A system is provided for training a device design network. The system includes an interface configured to input data of a device, a memory to store the device design network including an encoder, a decoder, and an adversarial block, and a processor. The processor is, in connection with the memory, configured to update the encoder and the decoder based on a first loss function to reduce the difference between the input data and output data of the decoder, wherein the encoder is constructed by at least one convolutional layer followed by at least one parallel fully connected layer to extract features of a layout of the device, and update the adversarial block to construct by maximizing a second loss function.

A TORminator module is disposed with a switch linecard of a rack. The TORminator module receives downlink electrical data signals from a rack switch. The TORminator module translates the downlink electrical data signals into downlink optical data signals. The TORminator module transmits multiple subsets of the downlink optical data signals through optical fibers to respective SmartDistributor modules disposed in respective racks. Each SmartDistributor module receives multiple downlink optical data signals through a single optical fiber from the TORminator module. The SmartDistributor module demultiplexes the multiple downlink optical data signals and distributes them to respective servers. The SmartDistributor module receives multiple uplink optical data signals from multiple servers and multiplexes them onto a single optical fiber for transmission to the TORminator module. The TORminator module coverts the multiple uplink optical data signals to multiple uplink electrical data signals, and transmits the multiple uplink electrical data signals to the rack switch.

An optical combiner for a communications network transmitting both upstream signals and a downstream optical signal. The communications network includes an array of amplifiers, each receiving a respective instance of the downstream optical signal. The output of each amplifier is split among a plurality of ports in a first splitter/combiner unit. The first splitter/combiner unit transmits the amplified downstream optical signal to respective second splitter/combiner units.

A co-packaged optical module includes a substrate, a processor arranged on the substrate and a plurality of light engines mounted around the processor on the substrate using mounting assemblies configured to attach the respective light engines to the substrate. The light engines and the mounting assemblies are disposed along a perimeter of the substrate, including at corners of the substrate. Each of the mounting assemblies includes a socket, a metal clamp clamping a corresponding one of the light engines into the socket, and a plurality of pins which when mated with corresponding holes in the substrate cause peripheries of the mounting assemblies, including the light engines, the sockets and the metal clamps, to be flush with the perimeter of the substrate.

Systems and methods for optical modulation index calibration in a CATV network.

Provided are an optical equalizer, a method, and a program which are configured to be capable of flattening a tilt characteristic of a wavelength division multiplexed optical signal with a simple configuration. The optical equalizer includes a detection unit configured to detect a tilt characteristic on the basis of intensities of at least two optical signals among a plurality of optical signals multiplexed into a wavelength division multiplexed optical signal, an optical attenuation unit configured to attenuate an intensity of the wavelength division multiplexed optical signal by an optical attenuation amount, and an optical amplification unit configured to amplify the attenuated wavelength division multiplexed optical signal on the basis of a gain characteristic associated with an intensity of the attenuated wavelength division multiplexed optical signal. In the optical equalizer, the optical attenuation amount is controlled based on the tilt characteristic and the gain characteristic.