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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2014
Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi-shi, Saitama, JP;
JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY, Kawaguchi-shi, JP;
Abstract
An optical add-drop apparatus dropping a signal in input optical fibers in an optical cross-connect apparatus or adding a signal into output optical fibers from the cross-connect apparatus, optical cross-connect portions of the cross-connect apparatus connected such that a cross-connect portion internal connection output port is directly connected to an internal connection input port of another cross-connect portion and is indirectly connected via the other cross-connect portion to an internal connection output port of a further cross-connect portion, the add-drop apparatus having: photocouplers connected to part or all of the input fibers connected to each cross-connect portion; and drop signal receiving apparatuses each having optical switches each receiving and alternately selecting a signal output from photocouplers connected to respective different cross-connect portions of the cross-connect portions out of the photocouplers, the drop signal receiving apparatuses selecting a signal of a wavelength for each signal respectively output from the optical switches.