Tyco Electronics Subsea Communications LLC

Alphion Corporation

Subcom, LLC

Ruomei Mu

Ekaterina A Golovchenko

Hongsheng Wang

Haifeng Li

Franklin Webb Kerfoot, Iii

Boris Stefanov

Ganesh Lakshminarayana

Jithamithra Sarathy

Dmitriy Kovsh

Lutfur Rahman

Frank W Kerfoot, Iii

Muhammad Haris

Hong Sheng Wang

A system and method for fault recovery in a branched optical network. In response to a fault, power distribution in channels on recovering digital line segments is adjusted to minimize a merit function based on one or more system parameters.

Fault recovery in branched optical networks

A system for fault recovery in an optical network may include an initial loading equipment (ILE) apparatus configured to supply power to a set of channels over a first communications link of the optical network, the set of channels including data channels and spare channels, and a control system configured to detect an optical power level over the data channels of the first communications link and determine whether a Q-factor corresponding to the data channels of the first communications link is below an error correction threshold, the control system configured to alert the ILE apparatus to adjust its optical power output over the spare channels upwardly based on the determination that the Q-factor is below the error correction threshold to increase the Q-factor.

Method and system for fault recovery in an optical network

A method of managing fault recovery in a trunk-branched OADM network may include determining that an optical power level over data channels of a first communications link between a first and a second terminal of the branched optical network exceeds an optical power limit. The method may further include increasing optical power sent over spare channels of the first communications link to a first level at which the optical power level over the data channels decreases to a second level below the optical power limit.

An optical add-drop network and wavelength allocation for the same wherein the system bandwidth is separated into a dedicated channel band and re-used channel bands, separated by guard bands, to allocate terminal connections to achieve a minimum number of re-used channel bands for the desired terminal connectivities.

Hybrid optical add-drop multiplexing network and wavelength allocation for the same

Monitoring of the input power is performed on-chip and is used to monitor and maintain performance, detect failure and trigger network protection strategies. An optical power-monitoring technique uses a photodetector monolithically integrated with the semiconductor optical amplifier&#x2014;Mach-Zehnder interferometer circuit to monitor the P2R device and keep the output stable while the input power varies.

Integrated performance monitoring, performance maintenance, and failure detection for photonic regenerators

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