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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2006
Applicants:
Erwan Pincemin, Gommenec'h, FR;
Franck Payoux, Lannion, FR;
Inventors:
Erwan Pincemin, Gommenec'h, FR;
Franck Payoux, Lannion, FR;
Assignee:
France Telecom, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/02 (2006.01); H04J 14/08 (2006.01); H04B 10/12 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and an associated method of bidirectional optical transmission between a central terminal () and a plurality of client terminals () via a passive optical network (PON) (), wherein the conversion of an OTDM signal into a WDM signal (respectively the conversion of a WDM signal into an OTDM signal) is effected by an optical converter () (respectively) by a soliton trapping effect during a downlink (respectively uplink) transmission stage.