Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Hayato Sano

Yuto Ueno

Kiyotomo Hasegawa

Keita Mochizuki

Mizuki Shirao

Yoshiya Sato

A wavelength tunable light source includes a wavelength tunable laser device and a control device. The wavelength tunable laser device includes: M laser diodes configured to generate laser oscillation to output beams; a multiplexer/demultiplexer configured to multiplex the beams output from the M laser diodes to bifurcate the beams for output; a first semiconductor optical amplifier configured to amplify one output beam of the bifurcated beams to output a first emitted beam; and a second semiconductor optical amplifier configured to amplify another output beam of the bifurcated beams to output a second emitted beam. The control device is configured to perform wavelength switching control on wavelengths of the first emitted beam and the second emitted beam by switching an electric power input to the second semiconductor optical amplifier.

Variable wavelength light source and method for controlling wavelength switching of variable wavelength light source

An optical transmission apparatus () includes an optical transmitter () including an optical modulator () and an observation optical modulator () that attenuate optical power of input continuous wave light by an electro-absorption effect and output the continuous wave light. The optical modulator () performs pulse amplitude modulation on the continuous wave light and outputs the optical signal. The apparatus also includes: a bias voltage generation unit () that generates a direct-current bias voltage and outputs the direct-current bias voltage to the optical modulator () and the observation optical modulator (); a modulation signal generation unit () that generates an electrical signal for pulse amplitude modulation and outputs the electrical signal to the optical modulator (); and a bias voltage control unit () that instructs the bias voltage generation unit () to adjust the direct-current bias voltage on the basis of an absorption amount of optical power in the optical modulator () and an absorption amount of optical power in the observation optical modulator ().

Optical transmission apparatus, optical transmission method, control circuit of the optical transmission apparatus, and storage medium of the optical transmission apparatus

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Tokyo, Japan

Hayato Sano