Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Nori Shibata

Satoshi Ikeda

Kazushige Yonenaga

Shigeru Kuwano

Kiyomi Kumozaki

Koji Kikushima

Naoya Sakurai

Hiroshi Nakamoto

Seiji Norimatsu

Katsushi Iwashita

Kouichi Suto

Chisei Kishimoto

The AM/FM converter of the present invention comprises an optical frequency modulation section which receives multi-channel AM video signals and outputs an optical-frequency-modulated optical signal beam; and an optical heterodyne detection section comprising an optical frequency oscillator composed of a semiconductor local laser which outputs a local oscillator optical beam having an optical frequency separated by a designated intermediate frequency, an optical coupler, and a photoelectric converter composed of a photodiode, which receives the optical signal beam and outputs an electrical batched FM modulation signal which is frequency-modulated and frequency-converted to the intermediate frequency. By means of this configuration, the invention offers an AM/FM converter wherein the frequency band is made considerably wider.

AM/PM converter and optical signal transmission system

In a transmitter side in an optical transmission system, an input binary signal is converted into a duobinary signal, and the duobinary signal is applied to an optical modulation device which provides an optical intensity modulation signal, wherein the optical intensity for a center value of the duobinary signal is a minimum, the optical intensity for the other two values of the duobinary signal is a maximum, and an optical phase for those two values is opposite to each other. In a receiver side, simple direct detection is carried out for receiving optical signal through an optical transmission line to provide a demodulated binary signal. Thus, an original binary signal is recovered without a duobinary decoder and receiver sensitivity degradation. In the optical transmission system, an optical carrier frequency component in a signal spectrum is suppressed, a signal bandwidth of the modulated light is reduced in half to that of a prior art, so an optical transmission system for long distance, high bit rate and large traffic capacity is obtained.

Optical transmission system

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