Patent ID: 9614621
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for establishing optical signal synchronization, the method comprising: an optical signal generation step of generating specific frequency band signals having power concentrated on two or more specific frequencies; a digital signal acquisition step of receiving a signal including the specific frequency band signals generated in the optical signal generation step and converting the received signal into a digital signal; a signal position detection step of detecting positions of the specific frequency band signals from the digital signal converted in the digital signal acquisition step; a frequency offset detection step of estimating frequency positions of the specific frequency band signals detected in the signal position detection step and detecting a frequency offset between an optical signal receiving apparatus and an optical signal transmitting apparatus that perform optical communication; a clock offset detection step of estimating the frequency positions of the specific frequency band signals detected in the signal position detection step, and detecting a clock offset between the optical signal receiving apparatus and the optical signal transmitting apparatus from an interval between the frequency positions; and a chromatic dispersion amount detection step of estimating temporal positions of the specific frequency band signals detected in the signal position detection step, and detecting a chromatic dispersion amount from a difference between the temporal positions of the specific frequency band signals corresponding to different frequencies.