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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Seiji Okamoto, Musashino, JP;
Fukutaro Hamaoka, Musashino, JP;
Masanori Nakamura, Musashino, JP;
Yoshiaki Kisaka, Musashino, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a communication system, wherein: an optical transmission apparatus has: a first storage unit that stores amplitude distribution information, which is information representing a distribution of occurrence probabilities of symbols of an optical signal, in association with a modulation rate of an optical signal; a control unit that selects the modulation rate based on a signal band that is a band determined by the modulation rate and a device band that is a band in which a transmission path and the like allow passage of an optical signal, and controls an occurrence probability of a symbol of an optical signal based on the amplitude distribution information; and an optical transmitter that transmits an optical signal of a symbol of which the occurrence probability is controlled; and an optical reception apparatus has: an optical receiver that receives an optical signal of a symbol; a second storage unit that stores the amplitude distribution information in association with the modulation rate; and a decoding unit that detects the selected modulation rate, and decodes a symbol of a received optical signal based on the amplitude distribution information associated with the detected modulation rate.