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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 11637633 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 13, 2022

Optical transmission apparatus, optical reception apparatus, optical communications apparatus, optical communication system, and methods of controlling them

Applicant:

Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Yoshiaki Aono, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:

Jai M Lee

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/02 (2006.01); H04Q 11/00 (2006.01); H04B 10/50 (2013.01); H04B 10/40 (2013.01); H04B 10/60 (2013.01); H04J 14/00 (2006.01); H04J 14/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/50 (2013.01); H04B 10/40 (2013.01); H04B 10/60 (2013.01); H04J 14/00 (2013.01); H04J 14/02 (2013.01); H04J 14/0238 (2013.01); H04J 14/0257 (2013.01); H04J 14/0267 (2013.01); H04J 14/0298 (2013.01); H04B 10/506 (2013.01); H04J 14/06 (2013.01); H04Q 11/0005 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0016 (2013.01);
Abstract

An optical transmission apparatus (_) according to the present invention includes a first transmission unit (_) that transmits a first optical transmission signal (_), a second transmission unit (_) that transmits a second optical transmission signal (_), and an output unit that outputs, when the first optical transmission signal (_) and the second optical transmission signal (_) share a set of information, both the first optical transmission signal (_) and the second optical transmission signal (_) to a first path (_) and outputs, when the first optical transmission signal (_) and the second optical transmission signal (_) do not share the set of information, one of the first optical transmission signal (_) and the second optical transmission signal (_) to a second path (_).

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