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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2020
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Keiichi Matsumoto, Tokyo, JP;
Hitoshi Takeshita, Tokyo, JP;
Hidemi Noguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Emmanuel Le Taillandier De Gabory, Tokyo, JP;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An optical amplifier that amplifies an incident WDM signal and includes cores having an amplification medium, the optical amplifier includes: a wavelength demultiplexer configured to demultiplex the incident WDM signal into wavelength bands and introducing the demultiplexed WDM signals into the cores separately; a wavelength multiplexer configured to multiplex amplified optical signals propagated through the cores and outputting the multiplexed signal; and an wavelength demultiplexing controller configured to monitor an amplification rate of a specific wavelength band of an amplified WDM signal or a scale associated with an amplification rate of a specific wavelength band, demultiplexing, from the incident WDM signal, an optical signal of a wavelength band having relatively-small optical amplification efficiency according to a monitoring result, and controlling demultiplexing performed by the wavelength demultiplexer in such a way as to amplify, with a relatively-large amplification rate, the optical signal of the wavelength band having relatively-small optical amplification efficiency.