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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2002
Takuya Nakamura, Yokohama, JP;
Jun-ichi Kani, Yokohama, JP;
Mitsuhiro Teshima, Yokosuka, JP;
Noboru Takachio, Yokosuka, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A multilevel light-intensity modulating circuit for suppressing the amplitude distortion regarding intermediate levels, caused by the conversion from a multilevel electric signal to a multilevel modulated optical signal. The circuit comprises a section for distributing an input optical carrier into n-channel optical carriers; n light-intensity modulators for modulating intensities of the optical carriers by using input two-level electric signals; a control section for producing a phase difference between the n-channel two-level modulated optical signals; a control section for assigning a different light intensity to each of the n-channel two-level modulated optical signals; and a section for combining the n-channel two-level modulated optical signals obtained via the control sections, and outputting a 2 -level modulated optical signal. The phase difference and the different light intensity are defined in advance so as to produce the 2 -level modulated optical signal.