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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 04, 1997
Takayuki Miyakawa, Kawaguchishi, JP;
Hidenori Taga, Sakadoshi, JP;
Shu Yamamoto, Shikishi, JP;
Shigeyuki Akiba, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An optical add/drop multiplexing scheme capable of reducing the degradation of the transmission characteristic due to the beat noises caused by the interference of the fiber grating leakage components. An optical add/drop multiplexing device is formed by a high speed polarization scrambler for entering signal lights with a data modulation at a high speed bit rate applied thereto, and scrambling polarization states of entered signal lights at high speed, and an optical add/drop element for receiving the signal lights with the polarization states scrambled by the high speed polarization scrambler, and carrying out an add/drop multiplexing operation for signal lights in a specific wavelength among received signal lights. The high speed polarization scrambler scrambles the polarization states of the entered signal lights so as to lower a probability for having worst polarization states of signal lights and interference lights, by scrambling the polarization states of the entered signal lights into every possible polarization states at nearly equal probabilities.