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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.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 1985
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1982
Alberto M Giacometti, Hilversum, NL;
George W Newsome, Hilversum, NL;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A fault location arrangement for a digital optical transmission system employing repeaters (2) has at each repeater an opto-electrical converter (55) and an electro-optical converter (5). The output of the opto-electrical converter (55) is fed via an AGC amplifier (57) and a regenerator (63) to a modulator (200) which comprises a two pole two way switch (40), a single pole two way switch (41) and two current sources (51,52). The two pole switch (40) is controlled by the regenerated data while the single pole switch (41) is controlled by a fault location signal (F2). The arrangement is such that fault information is transmitted by amplitude modulation of the digital signal but that the average power applied to the electro-optical converter (5) remains constant. Hence the amplitude modulation does not cause a varying dissipation in the converter (5) and hence reduces the possibility of variation of the wavelength emitted by the converter (5).
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